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January 13, 2005
Wingnuts of Mass Delusion

I just want to get this out on "paper" to make sure I'm not crazy...

The hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is officially over, 6 months or so after we knew for damn sure it was in reality over, not a shred of evidence of their existence having been found despite our making lots of extra holes in the country and the people over there to get a better look.

Still, according to our batshit insane President, going to war to find the nonexistent weapons was a freaking awesome idea! It was the best decision he ever made. The fact that the reason for it (and all subsequent reasons for it) turned out to be completely, utterly, absolutely false, there was nothing wrong with the decision.

Look, dickface, you just can't have it both ways. If you make a decision based on something that turns out to be completely untrue, how can that decision have been a good decision? Even if it had good results - which I think we can safely say this one has not - the decision was wrong. Go ahead and blame it on the intelligence community, but for god's sake admit that it was wrong!

Say it, chimpy: Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

Here's a little more about why it was oh-so-very-wrong, from the Washington Post:

Iraq has replaced Afghanistan as the training ground for the next generation of "professionalized" terrorists, according to a report released yesterday by the National Intelligence Council, the CIA director's think tank.

Iraq provides terrorists with "a training ground, a recruitment ground, the opportunity for enhancing technical skills," said David B. Low, the national intelligence officer for transnational threats. "There is even, under the best scenario, over time, the likelihood that some of the jihadists who are not killed there will, in a sense, go home, wherever home is, and will therefore disperse to various other countries."

Low's comments came during a rare briefing by the council on its new report on long-term global trends. It took a year to produce and includes the analysis of 1,000 U.S. and foreign experts. Within the 119-page report is an evaluation of Iraq's new role as a breeding ground for Islamic terrorists.

President Bush has frequently described the Iraq war as an integral part of U.S. efforts to combat terrorism. But the council's report suggests the conflict has also helped terrorists by creating a haven for them in the chaos of war.

"At the moment," NIC Chairman Robert L. Hutchings said, Iraq "is a magnet for international terrorist activity."

Before the U.S. invasion, the CIA said Saddam Hussein had only circumstantial ties with several al Qaeda members. Osama bin Laden rejected the idea of forming an alliance with Hussein and viewed him as an enemy of the jihadist movement because the Iraqi leader rejected radical Islamic ideals and ran a secular government.

Washington Post

A truly great decision. Way to go. You rule the school. I can't wait for your trial.

Finally,The Poor Man provides a very nice table comparing the circumstances and effects of the failed hunt for WMD to the Dan Rather "Memogate" scandal.

Why that thing got a -gate name among all the recent atrocities is beyond me. Aren't we about ready for a "Lying Presidentgate?"

Maybe I am crazy...

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