I’m suffering from a fairly serious bout of “I don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about” right now, but I promised myself I’d dip my toe back in the water today regardless. I’ll start with some personal shit. I learned yesterday that I’m either naive or have an alternate agenda.
I’m totally down with the alternate agenda thing because I didn’t think I was together enough to have a primary agenda. Just wait until my wife finds out I have an agenda. She’s a little under the weather right now, so I haven’t bothered her with the details, but she’s totally going to flip when she finds out. She’s been on my case to get an agenda for damn near fourteen years now. I may be a bit naive here, but I’m proud to be a part of a larger cause, even if I don’t have a clue what that cause is. Me and my unknown agenda will so totally fucking beat your sorry ass ideals into the ground and spit on the remains. Mark my words, you bastards, because my alternate agenda is on a warpath and your petty ideals are the crushed stone beneath my alternate agenda’s feet. I am blogger. Hear me roar.
As we all know, every blog post and blog comment holds great sway over the shape of the world to come. Every word written in this medium is precious. The nectar of the gods, or so I’ve heard.
Moving to another subject, a Senator representing my commonwealth very recently claimed that weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. I will not speak of dogs. The following comes from a New York Times article I think shows great sympathy for the Bush administration.
More than a year after the White House, at considerable political cost, accepted the intelligence agencies’ verdict that Mr. Hussein destroyed his stockpiles in the 1990’s, these Americans have an unshakable faith that the weapons continue to exist.
The proponents include some members of Congress. Two Republicans, Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania held a news conference on Wednesday to announce that, as Mr. Santorum put it, “We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”
American intelligence officials hastily scheduled a background briefing for the news media on Thursday to clarify that. Hoekstra and Mr. Santorum were referring to an Army report that described roughly 500 munitions containing “degraded” mustard or sarin gas, all manufactured before the 1991 gulf war and found scattered through Iraq since 2003.
Such shells had previously been reported and do not change the government conclusion, the officials said.
I doubt you would want to use the stuff in those shells as hand cream or shampoo, but they do not represent a danger worth however many lives will eventually be lost, destroyed, damaged or otherwise fucked up beyond all recognition by the time all is said and done with regards to our fine adventure in Iraq. Not even close. Not that forgotten and degraded shells left over from the war between Iran and Iraq had anything to do with it. If I recall correctly, we didn’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. Right?
Cue Captain Ed:
Critics of the war may find themselves undercut by their continuing insistence that the WMD finds are insubstantial, either in quantity or threat. First, we know undoubtedly that they existed, and the unclassified amount, in the wrong hands, could have killed thousands. Second and more importantly, the classified portion of the intel report speaks to a larger context — and the only reason to keep that quiet would be to either avoid a threat or to avoid some diplomatic embarrassment.
Despite the lack of interest at most of the major media centers, this story is not over. We know more than we have already stated, and when the entire story comes out, those who built their war policy on the sands of “no-WMD, Bush-lied” may find themselves sinking quickly.
I hope that every pro war politician, regardless of party, echos Ed every single day from here until forever. I really do. Here’s a little more of the same from Allahpundit :
WMDs are just a gotcha at this point; take away their gotcha and they’ll shift to a moral calculus of “how many American soldiers’ lives are worth 500 shells?” Or 5,000 shells, or pick a number.
Indeed. You pick the numbers darling. Please keep up the good work and please try to get your favorite politicians to echo your thoughts every day of the week. Thanks I guess. For now, I’ll go back to not knowing what the fuck I’m talking about.
