Leftists to the Walls!
It looks like someone is buying the hype. Will Bunch, former actual journalist is taking to the walls to help defend the hoary “No WMD” canard.
Except that he’s decided that the story now isn’t “No WMDs”, it’s “No WMDs. Except for those WMDs which YOU HORRIBLE CHICKENHAWKS JUST GAVE TO IRAN! Except they’re not really WMDS. Just kind of. It depends on who I want to blame and all”.
We have one question this morning for Sen. Rick Santorum, Michelle Malkin, Glenn Reynolds, Rep. Peter Hoekstra, John Hinderaker, Roger Simon, Stephen Hayes, and a self-proclaimed “army” of right-wing bloggers.
Oh yeah, and President George W. Bush:
Why are you helping Iran to develop a nuclear bomb?
By now you may have seen the lead story in today’s New York Times. It turns out that the Bush administration’s unprecendented — and apparently foolish beyond belief — decision to agree to post thousands upon thousands of raw and in some cases unexamined or untranslated documents captured in the 2003 invasion of Iraq on the Internet had a very unintended consequence.
Two points here.
First, is that our dear blogger on the left has exaggerated the situation. Note that the Times article is short on specifics regarding whether Iran actually saw any of these documents.
Even thoe quote used by Mr. Bunch allows for a possibility and not the certainty he claims.
A senior American intelligence official who deals routinely with atomic issues said the documents showed “where the Iraqis failed and how to get around the failures.” The documents, he added, could perhaps help Iran or other nations making a serious effort to develop nuclear arms, but probably not terrorists or poorly equipped states. The official, who requested anonymity because of his agency’s rules against public comment, called the papers “a road map that helps you get from point A to point B, but only if you already have a car.”
In other words, if you have the hardware, the documents tell you how to put it all together.
Which is cause for some concern, but it’s not “helping Iran to develop a nuclear bomb”.
The thing is, what Iran lacks is the hardware, not the technical know-how. Thanks to the A.Q. Khan network which initiatives pushed by this President helped roll up, Iran already had that technical know-how. They got more from Kim Jong-Il, who built himself a bomb or three under the watchful eyes of the last administration.
No, the problem is getting the stuff to make the bomb out of. Like fissionable material.
Like the stuff that Russia is trying like the dickens to give them.
Mr. Burns goes on. Boy, does he go on.
That’s the story, but the backstory behind how this happened is even more remarkable, in a way.
It happened because after the White House invaded a Middle Eastern country based upon a web of lies about weapons of mass destruction and phony ties to al-Qaeda, the neoconservatives were desperate for any shred of evidence that might belatedly prove they were right after all, and enlisted their blogger backers to become amateur WMD Sherlock Holmes’.
A “web of lies”? I wonder if Mr. Burns can explain to me how this story, exactly is a “web of lies”.
How is it a lie to say that Saddam Hussein was on the verge of building a nuclear weapon when we now know – and have known since Colin Powell went to the UN in 2002 – that Saddam Hussein was…well…on the verge of building a nuclear weapon?
How is it a lie to say something the IAEA and friendly nuclear powers in Europe such as France and Germany knew to be true four years ago?
Laying aside all the other reasons the President gave for toppling Hussein, such as the incontrovertable fact that he repeatedly violated the 1991 cease-fire that ended the Gulf War and the genocide he was committing against the Kurds and Marsh Arabs, it looks like the WMD argument was rock-solid.
Except to Burns, who still calls it a lie.
Silly, silly man.
Y’know, it’s funny. Burns calls what the was in the repository a “shred” of evidence, yet it’s “shred” enough for him to accuse me of giving Iran the nuke.
Which is it? Is it the “cookbook” that would let Iran build the bomb or it merely some scrap of evidence that lets the mean ol’ neocons hang onto their illusions tht Saddam had WMDs?
It can’t be both.
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