WMD? Oh Yeah, That
January 12, 2005
The papers report this morning that finally, after two years and probably a billion dollars in expense, the Bush administration finally gave up looking for Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.
It’s something that ought not to pass without comment. Someday, history will hold President Bush accountable for going to war on false pretenses. American voters, and the Democratic establishment, failed to do so. The tragedy unfolding in Iraq day after day, a shattered nation without electricity or running water, entire cities (like Fallujah) in ruins, perhaps 100,000 people dead—for a lie.
The Post headline says it all: “Search for Banned Arms in Iraq Ended Last Month.� Last month. In other words, they kept up the pretense of searching for the WMD until the election was over, and the commander-in-thief was safely reelected. I know I’ve said this before, but Bush’s phony search for WMD is exactly like O.J. Simpson looking for his wife’s killer. Only O.J. only killed two people. Bush killed tens of thousands. Where are the WMD? Never mind that. Where is the outrage?
link:
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/wmd_oh_yeah_that.php
January 12, 2005
The papers report this morning that finally, after two years and probably a billion dollars in expense, the Bush administration finally gave up looking for Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.
It’s something that ought not to pass without comment. Someday, history will hold President Bush accountable for going to war on false pretenses. American voters, and the Democratic establishment, failed to do so. The tragedy unfolding in Iraq day after day, a shattered nation without electricity or running water, entire cities (like Fallujah) in ruins, perhaps 100,000 people dead—for a lie.
The Post headline says it all: “Search for Banned Arms in Iraq Ended Last Month.� Last month. In other words, they kept up the pretense of searching for the WMD until the election was over, and the commander-in-thief was safely reelected. I know I’ve said this before, but Bush’s phony search for WMD is exactly like O.J. Simpson looking for his wife’s killer. Only O.J. only killed two people. Bush killed tens of thousands. Where are the WMD? Never mind that. Where is the outrage?
link:
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/wmd_oh_yeah_that.php
