Conservative writer Melanie Phillips has a new piece over at the Spectator attempting to prove that WMDs were found in Iraq, but they were taken by terrorists before we had a chance to secure them.
I know what you’re thinking, even W. admits there were never any WMDs, but that’s all a part of a massive cover-up. Apparently, the Right is so embarrassed about losing the weapons that they won’t talk about it. And the Left is so embarrassed that there really were WMDs, that they won’t talk about it either. So both sides decided to launch a massive cover-up.
The problem is that her sole support for the theory is from a guy by the name of Dave Gaubatz, who believes that only “White Christians” have the right to be US citizens and anyone who disagrees is treasonous. (I see nothing wrong with debating the pros and cons of US immigration policy. But when you consider any contrary view as being treasonous, well, that’s just a little bit wacky in my book.)
Basically, neo-cons are so eager to prove that W. was right about WMDs in Iraq, that they’re willing to call him a liar! Hilarious stuff. You know W. is in trouble when even his supporters are calling him a liar!
In trouble?
How?
He’s still in office. Its the American way of life that is in trouble.
1. “He’s still in office. Its the American way of life that is in trouble.”
Good point!
Do you really want to go to war with Syria now? Saddam Hussein shipped them there.
At the very beginning of the war, the administration complained about it and then suddenly shut up. Chasing the WMD’s would be a fool’s errand and would only spread the war. The short attention span public forgot all about it, of course. The evidence has probably been erased from the internet by now.
Is there precedent for that idea? Yes. During the first war with Iraq, Saddam sent his anti-ship fighters to Iran, gratis, since he knew he was going to lose them anyway.
The Democrats certainly don’t want to justify George’s war and make themselves look like idiots.
#3,
They shut up about it because THE WMDs DIDN’T EXIST. While some of your posts are a little weird, I never took you for being in line with a conspiracy theory like this.
I’m not surprised that conspiracy theories like this pop up — even we Democrats really hate to believe that our president would be so morally bankrupt that he would lie, hype and spin about something as grave as war.
#4 – You’re right. He used them all up against the Iranians and the Kurds.
#5 – I find your reply interesting, because it implies that half of the story can’t be true… in that Democrats would never be part of such a conspiracy. You’ve given naive a whole new definition.
#6. Sadly, conservatives do not want to believe these three truths, which are all hateful to them:
(1) the UN weapons inspectors were not feckless dupes;
(2) Bill Clinton’s bombing of Iraq during Operation Desert Fox squished what little was left of Saddam’s WMD-producing aspirations; and
(3) the current Iraq War was the result of either a mistake (innocent explanation) or a fraud (more likely explanation).
In other words, the UN was effective in dealing with a potential threat, Bill Clinton was an successful warrior, and the Republican President is either a dolt or morally bankrupt or both.
To the mind of the neo-con, this simply does not compute. Thus, phantom WMD transports to Syria.
You know in the last 5 years I have heard every thing from a n-bomb to a 22 gun called a WMD. Evan a fart. Till we define WMD I can not say if saddam had one or not. IMHO an army is a WMD.
#6 #5 – I find your reply interesting, because it implies that half of the story can’t be true… in that Democrats would never be part of such a conspiracy. You’ve given naive a whole new definition.
You misunderstand me. I believe that democrats can participate in a cover up. (but probably not this one, since I don’t believe the story at all.) I’m not that naive.
I believe that conspiracy theories spring up when people don’t want to accept the truth.
Here in the muslim world, muslims don’t want to believe a fellow muslim could have done something so horrible as 911 — so there are commonly held conspiracy theories that the Jews did it.
Similarly, there are Americans who don’t want to believe that a guy in a cave outsmarted our President and all our security forces — they they develop their own conspiracy theories about 911.
In this case, many people — even Democrats don’t want to believe that our president would be so morally bankrupt as to lie, spin and hype to start something as awful as a war — so they develop conspiracy theories to create an alternative narrative about it.