January 12, 2005
Help us, Shia LaBeouf. You're our only hope.
Posted by pete at January 12, 2005 11:15 AMIt's good to know that we finally found those elusive WMD. Finally, some justification for this war that's cost the lives of over 1,300 American soldiers and 15,000 Iraqi civilians (to say nothing of the credibility of the United States).
The hunt for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in Iraq (news - web sites) has come to an end nearly two years after President Bush ordered U.S. troops to disarm Saddam Hussein. The top CIA weapons hunter is home, and analysts are back at Langley.
In interviews, officials who served with the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) said the violence in Iraq, coupled with a lack of new information, led them to fold up the effort shortly before Christmas.
Four months after Charles A. Duelfer, who led the weapons hunt in 2004, submitted an interim report to Congress that contradicted nearly every prewar assertion about Iraq made by top Bush administration officials, a senior intelligence official said the findings will stand as the ISG's final conclusions and will be published this spring.
Granted, this isn't as big a deal as, say, CBS firing some people, but we all need our priorities.
President Bush, Vice President Cheney and other top administration officials asserted before the U.S. invasion in March 2003 that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear weapons program, had chemical and biological weapons, and maintained links to al Qaeda affiliates to whom it might give such weapons to use against the United States.
Gee, you'd almost think that bullshitting the American public in order to go to war would cost a Commander in Chief an election. Luckily, we're too precoccupied with where everyone's sticking their genitals to worry about such trivial matters as our President lying to us.
Unless it's about a blow job, of course. 'cause that involves genitals.
Bush has expressed disappointment that no weapons or weapons programs were found, but the White House has been reluctant to call off the hunt, holding out the possibility that weapons were moved out of Iraq before the war or are well hidden somewhere inside the country. But the intelligence official said that possibility is very small.
"Well hidden," eh? Sounds like the wrong team was on the job...
As an American, I'm offended that more than 1,300 (and counting) of my fellow countrymen and women have died in vain for that lie.
As a Catholic, I'm offended than so many Christians support the current administration's policies of murder, lying, and stealing, while doing so in the name of "values." Hey, God-squad: what happened to your WWJD policy?
As a Texan, I'm simply embarrassed.
As a post-911 realist, I'm scared shitless because nothing we've done in Iraq has made me any safer. If anything, it's just swelled the ranks of radical Islam and increased the number of poor souls willing to strap explosives to their body in order to kill me.
As a new parent and fiscal conservative, I'm enraged at the budgetary recklessness associated with this war, which my children will be forced to pay for.