In case you haven’t noticed, our esteemed President is now asking for the very same thing that he denied the United Nations—sufficient time to prove that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
After telling the UN Security Council to stick it, after invading a sovereign nation and the loss of many lives, our glorious leader now expects us to accept the same idea that the French proposed and we ridiculed. Send in more inspectors and wait as much as a year or two to determine whether Saddam Hussein really did or did not have any weapons of mass destruction. Weapons not already found and destroyed by eight years of UN inspection teams after the first war against Saddam in 1991.
We had to move quickly because Iraq had weapons of mass destruction poised to unleash on us and our friends and would stop at nothing to destroy us. If he didn’t use them himself, he would give them to terrorists like Osama bin Laden or the al Qaeda who had been training in Iraq.
And now that it has been more than two months since we overran the pipsqueak country and Saddam has disappeared, what have we found?
We’ve found exactly nothing—zero, zip, zilch, nada, squat, the big goose egg, not even a trace of any chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons of mass destruction, much less anything that could have been unleashed upon us in 45 minutes.
If someone were to take all of the televised speeches George W. Bush made about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, all of the situations from kindergarten visits to union meetings, political rallies and radio broadcasts, and assembled them in one continuous stream, it would take more than a week of twenty-four hour play to repeat them all.
If you added the Donald Rumsfeld show, speeches by Colin Powell, Condolezza Rice, and other hawks of the administration plus politicians, it would take another week to repeat these condemnations of Iraq and Saddam Hussein.
If you then added the Fox News Network’s twenty-four-hour-a-day reports of these speeches plus analysis and comments by their own talking heads and experts trotted before cameras, we would be right back to the months of constant bombardment or blunderbuss of weapons of mass destruction to which Americans were exposed.
If you added CNN and the ABC, NBC, CBS noon, evening, and late night reports, plus Jay Leno and David Letterman’s derogatory jokes, we would probably have years of one continuous playback of weapons of mass destruction threatening America, Israel, and the rest of the free world.
And by the way, just how did the UN inspectors dispose of all those stockpiles of weapons, ammunition, gases and so forth since 1991? Did they blow them up, dump them in the ocean, bury them in the desert, sell them to Iran, ship them to Nevada, or what? Don’t you think that this would deserve at least a little news coverage?
Bush and the other war mongers hope the American people forget all the stories they drummed up to create enthusiasm for the invasion of Iraq, but it doesn’t seem to be happening. Instead, our staunchest allies are in deep trouble in their own countries. Tony Blair is toast with the Parliament, the people, and his own Labor Party in Britain. John Walker, the Prime Minister of Australia, has been given a vote of no confidence. Even in America there’s a movement to impeach George W. Bush led by John Dean of Watergate fame. A man who should know quite a bit about lies and corruption.
Meanwhile the loyal American press and media continue to support Bush who goes right on telling us that weapons of mass blah blah will eventually show up or these same news imitators try to point out possible scapegoats in faulty intelligence provided the President, Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of State who were somehow duped and misled. And various committees in Congress and elsewhere are trying to whitewash the issue with the usual investigations of themselves.
But by far, the most outlandish idea is that the people should grant Bush time. More time to find the weapons of mass blah blah that UN inspectors and 250,000 invading U.S. troops have not been able to find and were not used against us by the man we were told would resort to whatever desperate measures he had on hand.
It’s already obvious that there was no need to rush into a pre-emptive strike against Iraq or the unnecessary death and destruction that ensued.
The alternative is to sit back and wait for the greatest fantasy film ever produced in what will appear to be a documentary outdoing the toppling of Saddam’s statue or any of the fabulous productions of Hollywood. A melodrama that will rival special effects films like Jurassic Park, Godzilla, The Mummy, Wag the Dog, Enemy of the State, Pearl Harbor, and Snow White all rolled into one with a little Moses, Noah, or other biblical connotations to show that at other times individuals have been inspired by God to stand alone and do the right thing.
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