Even giving the Bush Administration the benefit of a doubt, assuming the truck really is a mobile weapons lab, who wants to convince the world that invading a soverign nation and overthrowing a government was justified by one truck?
Yoghurt production facility.
All the admin’s "proof"so far has been bullshit. If this is any different, it’s up to them to provide some real evidence.
Oh, I didn’t mean you, Beagle. I meant like, you know, dumb guys that believe anything the Bushista’s dish out. You know. Those guys.
Some good and interesting links listed by akrako1 about 6 posts above me. Thing is, though, if we remember back, the Agencies to whom the task of assessing any potential threat from WMD falls all agreed there was none from Iraq; the CIA, NSA, MI6 and both US and UK military – this is a matter of, before the fact, public record. And the view of these agencies were supported by people like Scott Ritter (seven years in Iraq in UNSCOM).
The WMD malarkey is just a more blatant lie than Bush’s intentional (and successful) blurring of the boundaries between 9/11 and Saddam.
The real question, for me, is how and why the public bought the lies given the weight of expert evidence to the contrary ? – at this point, I can’t see beyond the media, as well as some residual 9/11 stuff … you can fool all of the people some of the time …. Some interesting lessons to be learned in all of this about democracy, the media and ‘leadership’.
Sarcameter pegged… Losing altitude…
This is a classic case of killing the messenger. I think this whole WMD thing is wonderful theatre. I’ve heard stories placing them in Syria and Lebanon.
I’m pretty sure that they are hidden in the Holy Grail.
Not picking on you Beagle, but I hear this attitude a lot about media hype. I agree that the highest people in the Pentagon have been careful in their statements on the existence of WMD. However, they have also been very cavalier about allowing officers in the field and Pentagon “sources” to damn near absolutely confirm the existence of WMD at a number of sites. These are not cases of embedded reporters talking to some grunt about his uninformed opinion; “Yep, we don’t see these things in Kansas. My momma didn’t raise no fool, this is the real McCoy.”
The media “hype” is coming from interviews with officers, many of whom specialize in testing for WMD. In fact one report came from a field general. Should the media just refuse to report anything that doesn’t come out of the mouth of Rumsfield? Seems to me like the DoD is having their cake and eating it too since the subsequent reports on the false positives receives very little media attention.
I forgot to add that the Pentagon brass could easily issue an order requiring all inquiries about WMD testing to be referred to the Pentagon press office or CinCom.
Just to further show how distorted the official view is, and how far from reality it really is, here’s a wonderful news story:
Judge rules Saddam, bin Laden must pay Sept. 11 families
http://www.suntimes.com/output/terror/cst-nws-attack08.html
Eh, Saddam must pay?? I seem to remember our intelligence agencies working overtime for months under intense pressure from the Bush cabal to establish ANY solid link between betweek Al-Queda and Iraq. They never found a real one. Lots of vague, unsubstantiated reports doesn’t quite do it for me. Like the WMD’s, now that were there, shouldn’t we be swimming in proof?
Even more surprising, I’ll hear it on the street - of course from the pro-War crowd, “But, Saddam took down our towers!!” - they’ll plea. God, how do you even address someone that’s at that point? Not only do they probably believe anything that the administration tells them, but they make these blind jumps of logic based on no facts at all. But of course, that’s what the admin. wants - opinions based on fear and misinformation. I’ll be very sad to hear in 20 years that sentiment is that Iraq attacked us. History is already being perverted and it isn’t even history yet.