White House Whopper Becomes Instant Classic: by Molly Ivins

[kpete]

Published on Thursday, April 13, 2006 by TruthDig
White House Whopper Becomes Instant Classic
by Molly Ivins

Personally, I think this is a really good time not to keep up. The more you try, the less sense it makes, although getting us used to having it all make no sense at all may be an extremely sneaky Karl Rove ploy to justify the war in Iraq. Hard to say.

The latest development to which the only appropriate response is, “Huh,” is the news that the “mobile weapons labs” introduced to us by President Bush before the war as conclusive evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq were not evidence—conclusive or otherwise—of WMD and were not, in fact, mobile weapons labs.

The only thing new here is the news that George W. Bush likely knew a couple of days before he talked about them in public that the Defense Intelligence Agency had found they were not mobile weapons labs.

OK, given everything we already know about the lies before the war, this is not particularly startling—although I do think it’s long past time we stopped referring to the campaign of disinformation and false information that we were fed as anything but lies. No, the startling and funny part of the “mobile weapons lab” lie is the administration’s defense of it, which is so batty it’s an instant classic.

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0413-21.htm

[meti57b]

1. "Does anyone understand why we have to bomb Iran yet? "...Yes, it's to get

our minds off the lies, incompetence and uselessness of the Iraq war. How much does anyone think or talk about Afghanistan these days.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Actually, it's to make our Arab & Israeli handlers happy.

Poor rich Saudi Arabia and the enclave of Israel are trembling that we have left a power opening for Iran to take over. It's probably something that could happen over the next twenty years, but they want the U.S. to take care of it now, instead of taking that time to spend their own GD money to raise their own GD army.

[meti57b]

7. Israel is a nation, not an "enclave", and ...

Israel does not control the U.S. government, if that's what you're getting at.

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. "Control" or has an influence that reaches further than most allied

nations. "Control" seemed to be shorter, but thank you for the opportunity to clarify.

Also, I'm not questioning Israel's sovereignty. But it is a mostly Jewish territory that is bordered by Arab territories, hence an "enclave."

[boobooday]

2. I loved her point about classifiying and declassifying

A perfect example of the blatant doublespeak of the Orwell . . . I mean Bush administration.

[pretzel4gore]

3. it was bushes, not trees!

they could not have burned down the forest, cuz forests are made of trees, not bushes! So they innnocent of the charge (of starting the forest fire!)
damn them nitpicking sticklers! but still....:( 'givem back their matches, and lettem go!'

[kentuck]

4. I've had some of the same questions as Molly for last few days...

<snip>
"According to White House spokesman Scott McClellan, the DIA report debunking the “weapons labs” is “a complex intelligence white paper and it’s ... one derived from highly classified information (and) takes a substantial amount of time to coordinate and to run through a declassification process.”

If I understand what McClellan is saying, Bush leaked bad information from a classified intelligence report because there wasn’t enough time for the contradictory DIA report to go through a declassification process. All of which would make more sense if we hadn’t just gone through this Valerie Plame episode, where the White House says if the president leaked it, then it’s legal to leak it. No problem, the president can declassify at will, they said. I don’t know about you, but none of it is becoming clearer for me. Does anyone understand why we have to bomb Iran yet? "

[WiseButAngrySara]

5. K & R and thanks! ....n/t

[EVDebs]

9. Mobile weapons labs = AMC Gremlins

A great idea, but nobody would buy it in their right minds !

[XOKCowboy]

10. I love that woman...

Thanks for the article. K&R :)

[Pacifist Patriot]

11. Molly will always get a K & R from me.