SFChron: "Ha-ha Suckers. No WMDs after all. Bush Lied"

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SFChron: "Ha-ha Suckers. No WMDs after all. Bush Lied"

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2003/05/14/notes051403.DTL&nl=fix

BushCo Reams Nation Good
No WMDs after all, no excuse for war, too late for anyone to care anymore.
Ha-ha, suckers

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
©2003 SF Gate

URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2003/05/14/notes051403.DTL&nl=fix


Ha-ha-ha oh man did we ever get smacked on that one. Conned big time. Punk'd like dogs. Just gotta shake your head, laugh it off. They reamed us but good, baby! Damn.

Turns out it really was all a big joke after all. The war, that is. All a big fat nasty murderous oil-licking lie, a sneaky little power-mad game with you as the sucker and the world as the pawn and BushCo as the slithery war thug, the dungeon master, the prison daddy. You really have to laugh. Because it's just so wonderfully ridiculous. In a rather disgusting, soul-draining sort of way.
See, there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. No WMDs at all. Isn't that great? What's more: There never were. Ha-ha-ha. Gotcha!

No warehouses teeming with nuclear warheads, no underground bunkers packed with vats of boiling biotoxins, no drums of crazy-ass chemical agents that will melt your skin and turn us all into drooling flesh-eating zombies -- unless, of course, you count the sneering vat of conservative biotoxin that is, say, Fox News, in which case, hell yeah baby, we gotcher WMDs right here beeyatch.

Go figure. Those lowly U.N. inspectors were right after all. Who knew? It was all a ruse. We've been sucker-punched and ideologically molested and patriotically sodomized and hey, what the hell, who cares anyway, we "liberated" an oppressed people most Americans secretly loathe and fear and don't understand in the slightest, even though that was never the point, or the justification, or the goal. Go team.

more.............

[Richardo]

1. Man I WISH it was the SF Chronicle - that would show big brass ones...

...but alas, it's the SFGate. Still a great article, but not the paper of record (read: mainstream) in SF.

[arcane1]

3. Morford should be in ALL the mainstream papers!

:toast:

[Atlant]

19. Huh???

The 'Gate IS the web site of the Chron!

I have no idea if Morford appears in the print edition, though.

Atlant

[Pltcl_jnky]

2. i know this has been asked before

but what if say in february military digs up a bunch of WMD's??? where does that leave us???

admit error or claim they were planted?

[mac56]

5. Overall, it won't matter.

Any WMDs found at that point will be examined down to the smallest molecule to verify that they aren't plants. But more importantly, anything found at that point will be so far removed from any sort of "imminent threat" that it'll be seen as ridiculous. "We went to war how long? Spent how much? How many people died? For a weapon you couldn't find till February 2004?"

[library_max]

18. Examined by whom?

It's not an unimportant question. I think at this point it would be practically impossible to convince me (for example) that any WMDs found in Iraq weren't Furmanized evidence.

[gratuitous]

6. It has indeed been asked before

And six months have passed while we've had full run of the entire country. So, you figure five months from now them ol' debbil weapons of mass destruction gwine to jes' show up in de briar patch? Whoops, sorry, you figure five months from now them ol' debbil weapons of mass destruction gwine to jes' show up in de briar patch???

By February 2004, the whereabouts of non-existent weapons will be one of the least of Chimpy's worries.

[mitchtv]

10. this is precisely why the Congr'l Dems have

ben very careful about what they say. They know Rove, and don't wanna get caught, pants down. Kennedy has broken the ice in a big way.

[mac56]

11. Kennedy is way too savvy

to make a statement like he did unless he has something rock solid behind it.

Somebody talked. Just watch and wait.

[Hamlette]

13. The guy from Sweden

(gawd I hate that I don't have a better memory, sorry) but he was on the News Hour this week. He was the weapons inspector in iraq from 1991 to 1997 (I may have the dates off a bit). He said the kind of WMD Saddam was famous for do not have a shelf life so of course they got rid of them after 1991. They were no longer effective.

He also said Saddam also recognized during the 1991 gulf war that the American troops were better protected against chemical weapons than were his own soldiers or the Iranian soldiers so he didn't use them. He also recognized that to use them would just destroy his own army so he didn't make any more. He says we'll never find any.

When asked whether he told the US this before this war he said "I filed a report in 1995 that said there were no WMD and I've been telling anyone who will listen since then. Nobody will listen."

Anyone else see it?

I think that's what Kennedy has latched on to.

[mac56]

14. Rolf Ekeus

United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1997. He was on a couple of evenings ago.

[Myra]

4. Mark just never pulls any punches

He so kicks ass.

[Starpass]

7. Man, when you read something like this........

..don't you just wish this fucking media would stop wasting 24 hours a day trying to keep smearing lipstick, eyeliner, and blush on this pig and just one day stop, turn around to the tv camera and say EXACTLY what this guy said!!!!!!!!!!!

[bbernardini]

8. I hope this guy has a good hiding place...

Isn't this the sort of thing that might push a few Freepers with an itchy trigger finger over the edge?

[rak1004]

9. ok

Whats a freeper????

[mac56]

12. A denizen of Free Republic.

They are to we DU'ers as the Bizarros are to Superman.

Welcome to DU, by the way.

[BlueJazz]

20. Bizarros are to Superman.....ROTFLMAO!

>n/t

[boxster]

15. That was written in May!

Now maybe he'll tell us what he really thinks! Hehe....

I love California (yes, I'm a psycho). Only there do you get editorials like this one.

Rock on, Mark.

[rocktivity]

16. "It's all over but the shouting. And the screaming.."

And the endless years of U.S. occupation in the Middle East, the quiet building of U.S. military bases in Iraq so we can keep those uppity bitches Syria and Egypt and Lebanon in line...

I figured there were no WMDs in Iraq due to Bush's hyper-impatience with the inspection process. After all, if there are no weapons, there's no reason to invade, and if there's no invasion, there's no access to the oil. Bush barged ahead with the invasion because he couldn't allow the inspectors to not find anything.

Then Bush barges ahead with the announcement that the mission has been accomplished (despite the absence of WMDs or Saddam), and awarding no-bid contracts to his VP's former employer (who flat-out lied about his having a financial stake in it). But what raised my suspicions again is Bush's foot-dragging on sending the soldiers home, transferring power to Iraqi citizens, keeping the water and electricity running full-time, and producing an exit strategy. Well, I figured that out in time, too. There ISN'T an exit strategy because he's not going anywhere anytime soon--and neither is his control over the council he's appointed!


rocknation

[Old and In the Way]

17. Notice, too, the timing of our exit from Saudi Arabia?

Coincidental that we get the boot from there, just in time to establish ourselves with new bases in Iraq? A little more "central" to all the potential "terrorist" spots?

The place where terrorism is nurtured kicks us out...how ironic.