The Facts Be Damned
Yesterday the Dalfouer Report came out. Chemical Weapons Programs abondoned in 1995. Biological Weapons abondoned in 1996. Nuclear program rapidly deteroiting, not advancing, and was crap anyways. AND… somewhat ignored, had no interest in giving wmd to anybody but himself, and wanted to feign their existence for the decade as a defense against Iran and Israel.
Theoretically, I guess, this means that the US would have ended up back buttressing the Saddam Hussein regime back up, in the same way that we buttress up Pakistan’s government, to keep those weapons of mass destruction away from terrorists. (But, no, my imagaination is getting away from me.)
It did go into some details of the “Oil for Food Scandal”, which Fox News will continue to beat on and on about.
Whatever to the two above paragraphs.
Bush has released a new ad showing various quotes from Kerry… the “flip flop” charge. ‘Tis an effective advertisement, though I scoff at the “vote for before I voted against” charge. But I have to laugh at the inclusion of “We might still find weapons of mass destruction.”
I scoff at that because it’s better he said that then than if he had said it NOW
Geniuses them all.
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) said: “We didn’t have to find plans or weapons to see what happened when Saddam Hussein used chemical and biological weapons on his own people. So just because we can’t find them and Saddam Hussein had 12 years to hide them doesn’t mean he didn’t have them and didn’t use them.”
“There was a risk — a real risk — that Saddam Hussein would pass weapons or materials or information to terrorist networks,” Bush said. “In the world after September 11th, that was a risk we could not afford to take.”
I saw this, and I saw it again on various websites:
Because Mr. Bush chose to act, we know what capabilities Iraq did — and did not — possess, and we’ve learned how difficult it is to occupy and attempt to reconstruct that country.
We needed to go into Iraq, so that we could learn how difficult it is to occupy a foreign nation. Put it in the Bush stump speech, please!
When I find a transcript of the impomptu debate between Senators Durbin and Steven on the Senate floor, I’ll post it here. The best I can get there is an audio clip from NPR found here. In the meantime…
the debate is coming up. A few stray comments I’ve seen around:
Yeah Bush is a masterdebater all right. I just wish he’d confine himself to masterdebating in private, instead of fucking with everybody else.
Debate tomorrow night will be cancelled due to unconfirmed rumours of activities related to rumour mongering. You heard it here first.