March 19, 2004
WHERE ARE THE WMD'S?
I really don't give a flip shit. What I DO care about is my inability to remember why the Left was against the war prior to October. It seems to me there were reasons the Culmination of the Iraq War of 1991 was a Bad Thing that had nothing to do with WMD's. But once no WMD's materialized, the cucarachas locked onto that as their raison d'etre.
Never mind everyone believed Saddam had them. He certainly ACTED like he did. And he certainly owned them at one point, because he fucking USED THEM! Let us not forget the fact we gave him six months to hide/dispose/bury them, also.
They may show up yet. I don't care. The fact is, we have been at war with Iraq for 13 years. As has France. As has Germany. That 1991 cease-fire was not a peace treaty, and Saddam's continuous abrogations of that cease-fire kept him in noncompliance. The daily shooting of antiaircraft weapons at U.S. warplanes in the no-fly zones alone made Saddam an international criminal. And, as France and Germany were in the original coalition, they are, by International Law, still at war with Iraq.
It was time to wrap it up, and stop Saddam's cavalier, wanton daily murder of his serfs.
One more point: where were these outraged protesters when Clinton invaded Haiti, bombed Kosovo, took out the fucking Chinese Embassy there (faulty CIA intelligence is a pass for Clinton, a crime for Bush), bombed Afghanistan, bombed Iraq? ALL without so much as a fleck of spit of approval from the UN? Bush had Resolution 1441. Remember that little piece of work? The UN GAVE Bush the right to cinch up that ongoing abortion.
Finally, why do we care what France, Germany, and the UN think? The facts are UN bureaucrats, French politicians, and German politicians were all engaged in corrupt deals with Saddam, getting kickbacks from the Oil-For-Food program even as Iraqi children were being starved and murdered. This isn't tinfoil hat, Art Bell delusion. These facts have been gleaned from our study of the papers we garnered in Baghdad. THAT is the pure simple reason these people opposed us.
So why can't we just Move On?