Now He Has to Say It Two More Times

October 7, 2004

Vice President Cheney announced today that the final report on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction -- which concluded that there haven't been any since 1991, and weren't going to be any in the future -- has fully justified the decision to go to war.

He also said that the record deficit and massive new bureaucracies produced by the Bush Administration are evidence of their commitment to smaller federal government.

And that cutting combat pay for soldiers in the field demonstrates the Republicans support for American troops.

Also, that time he beat the Macy's Santa to death in front of several hundred children was entirely in the Christmas spirit.

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z added:

"weren't going to be any in the fututre"

You didn't bother to read the report did you?

Posted on October 7, 2004 2:29 PM

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Ponyboy added:

No, of course not. Neither have you. But I've read the news reports, and ambitions to reconstitute programs that might potentially produce WMD if the inspectors left is a whole hell of a long way from managing to do it. Would you have preferred "and the possibility that there were going to be any in the future is roughly equivalent to Saddam taking up ballet and resigning his dictatorship to join the Bolshi"?

The difference between slim and none is a pretty fragile hook to hang a war on.

(In fairness -- we're all about fairness here at Glassdog -- the report does say that chemical weapons, minus the inspectors, could have been produced inside of a year. Which may have been bad news for the Kurds, but was as close to irrelevant to US safety concerns as you can get.)

Posted on October 8, 2004 12:27 AM

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