October 01, 2003


It wasn't about...

Oil, torture chambers, mass graves, grievous human rights injustices...well, ok it was a leeetle bit about Oil. But remember it was really about WMDs? Really really! Fearless Leader said so...

Today, the gravest danger in the war on terror, the gravest danger facing America and the world, is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
Sounds devasting...outlaw regimes, my oh my and we wonder why the Old Europeans think we're all just Rexall Wranglers...
Twelve years ago, Saddam Hussein faced the prospect of being the last casualty in a war he had started and lost. To spare himself, he agreed to disarm of all weapons of mass destruction.

For the next 12 years, he systematically violated that agreement. He pursued chemical, biological and nuclear weapons even while inspectors were in his country.

Nothing to date has restrained him from his pursuit of these weapons:
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The dictator of Iraq is not disarming. To the contrary, he is deceiving.

From intelligence sources, we know, for instance, that thousands of Iraqi security personnel are at work hiding documents and materials from the U.N. inspectors, sanitizing inspection sites and monitoring the inspectors themselves.

Seems thats some pretty concrete evidence of ... something. But wait, didn't he say "documents and materials"?

In a "shocking" development today, David Kay, Chief of Three-Card Monte for the 1600 Crew had this little nugget:

With no chemical or biological weapons yet found in Iraq, the U.S. official in charge of the search for Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction is pursuing the possibility that the Iraqi leader was bluffing, pretending he had distributed them to his most loyal commanders to deter the United States from invading.
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Officials said they expect Kay to document what the U.S. intelligence community has long reported about Iraq's significant efforts to deceive inspectors, including the hiding of documents and materials related to weapons programs. In a CIA white paper issued in October 2002, for example, CIA Director George J. Tenet said, "Baghdad's vigorous concealment efforts have meant that specific information on many aspects of Iraq's WMD programs is yet to be uncovered."
So the real reason as defined in the State of Union was the Documents of Mass Destruction? We just went to war over Paperwork?

Regime change in 2004.

posted by Jo Fish on 10.01.03 at 12:23 AM





Comments:

There's been a serious shortage of Charmin over there in Iraq for the last decade, and Saddam's been using those documents instead. The paper quality is less than soft, which would account for his nastiness to his fellow Iraqis. (Remember? "He killed his own people!!!!")

Damn! That Iraqi paper isn't medicated, and it's soooo rough! But he put it to good use.

Just about the same use we should put the Kay report to.

posted by: Lurch on 10.01.03 at 08:27 AM [permalink]



Bush is a Liar. We all can see it daily. Wear a tinfoil ribbon if you'd like to say it loud and proud... or sport a tinfoil beanie. Truth is in fashion this season...

posted by: m on 10.01.03 at 01:21 PM [permalink]



That's it?! Hussein successfully bluffed the great and powerful US?

...pathetic!

--ventura county, ca

posted by: Darryl Pearce on 10.01.03 at 05:23 PM [permalink]



Darryl: Bluffing existed long before poker. Bluffing is about expectations - the other guy's expectations. When you are very certain about what the opponent is going to do, your courses of action are somewhat predetermined.

I can't supply the exact quote from memory, and I'm too goldurn old and achey and tired to pick up that book to search for it, but Sun Tzu teaches that as the enemy advances, retreat is your tactic. As he marshals his forces, the best action is to watch. And as he waters his horses and troops the best action is to poison the water upstream. The time to advance and attack is when he retreats.

posted by: Lurch on 10.01.03 at 10:29 PM [permalink]






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