The Mehr News Agency, in Tehran, is reporting that the United States is smuggling Weapons of Mass Destruction into Iraq, to be planted and then later "revealed" -- thereby exonerating the Bush Administration's war planners.
Now, the Bush Administration is stupid enough if it thinks that the World is going to believe that it would be able to suddenly find a stash of WMD, without locating production facilities. (On the other hand, it probably doesn't really give a fuck if the World believes it, so long as American voters do.) Both David Kay and Hans Blix (as well as Iraqi defectors and scientists) have stated pretty unequivocally that Saddam's WMD, and his regime's capability to produce them, were destroyed long ago.
However, these shenanigans could prove to be much more than just stupid, when we take into account the magnified level of attacks upon U.S. supplies convoys. The WMD are allegedly being smuggled via un-registered containers, masked as relief shipments and, according to one member of the Iraqi Governing Council, disguised as fuel supplies.
So, say you're driving a convoy filled with "relief supplies". Not only is there an increasing likelihood that the convoy will come under attack. But now you've also got to worry that an Iraqi guerilla will fire a rocket at a "fuel" container, releasing "biological and bacterial toxins" into the atmosphere.
Give the Bush Administration this much: never a dull moment.
I think this belongs in the Onion...
Posted by: on April 13, 2004 05:19 PMIt is a bit over the top. Strangely, I believe such a thing could happen, but it would never appear in print.
Posted by: Carl on April 13, 2004 07:30 PMIt does seem over the top, but also very creepy if you listened to the Shrub's press conference yesterday--
He mentioned several times, with certainty, that WMD would be found.
Of course, certainty in the face of factual contradiction has never seemed to be a problem for GW (he also brought back the entirely discredited Al-Queda - Iraq link), but still....
Thinking back on the whole thing, I was a bit shocked that they didn't 'find' WMD within the first few weeks after the war. I really do not think it is past this admin to place something.
Posted by: Bud on April 14, 2004 03:35 AMThese dirtbags in the White House would do it. They'd do it without hesitation, and they'd do it at a key point in the presidential campaign.
Bud is right about the tone of little Caesar's assertions. Remember the look on his old man's face in 2000 when they said, in a similar way, "we WILL win Florida." The fix was in then, and it's probably in now.
Posted by: Thom on April 14, 2004 08:18 AM