Not real weapons, but it could loosely be called a "program"
Verbal Jazz does not know what is more disturbing: that, in all likelihood, there are no actual Weapons of Mass Destruction (WoMD) in Iraq, or that Saddam Hussein may have been convinced his weapons programs were doing quite well. If you are to believe a report in today's New York Times (sometimes dubious, but at least it's news!) then David Kay, former head of the weapons inspection team, asserted those very things. Actually, he said that any idiot paying attention to the intelligence would have come to the conclusion that there was no forward progress in Iraq's weapons program. Only he didn't say "idiot," he said something to the effect that the CIA missed the "disarray" in the weapons program.
In an effort to look like he was not piling on President Flyboy and the Secret Agent Veep, Kay said he could see how Iraq could pose a security threat...even without those weapons. Verbal Jazz will now have a moment of fairness: having never been in charge of decoding intelligence, Verbal Jazz does not wish to make it sound easy to determine the extent of weapons capacity. If Verbal Jazz were put in charge of an weapons inspection team, I might just assume that any weapons laboratory were a large industrial kitchen: "Your country sure does eat a lot, and way out in the middle of nowhere. Say can I eat the Nigerian Yellow Cake you were talking about?"
Verbal Jazz, however does note that in his State of the Union Address the President was careful to bow to semantics in saying "weapons program" or something to that effect. Sure, Iraq had a "program:" the lunatic in charge threw money toward scientists who made proposals. Those scientists then used the cash for other things: kind of like Halliburton (or CronyCo) If you knew you could get away with it, you would also do it.
Now serve and volley time for the Democrats taking the primary to New Hampshire. In other words, expect to hear a litany of variations on the theme: "The President lied and we need an investigation, and as president I would..."
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Verbal Jazz does not know what is more disturbing: that, in all likelihood, there are no actual Weapons of Mass Destruction (WoMD) in Iraq, or that Saddam Hussein may have been convinced his weapons programs were doing quite well. If you are to believe a report in today's New York Times (sometimes dubious, but at least it's news!) then David Kay, former head of the weapons inspection team, asserted those very things. Actually, he said that any idiot paying attention to the intelligence would have come to the conclusion that there was no forward progress in Iraq's weapons program. Only he didn't say "idiot," he said something to the effect that the CIA missed the "disarray" in the weapons program.
In an effort to look like he was not piling on President Flyboy and the Secret Agent Veep, Kay said he could see how Iraq could pose a security threat...even without those weapons. Verbal Jazz will now have a moment of fairness: having never been in charge of decoding intelligence, Verbal Jazz does not wish to make it sound easy to determine the extent of weapons capacity. If Verbal Jazz were put in charge of an weapons inspection team, I might just assume that any weapons laboratory were a large industrial kitchen: "Your country sure does eat a lot, and way out in the middle of nowhere. Say can I eat the Nigerian Yellow Cake you were talking about?"
Verbal Jazz, however does note that in his State of the Union Address the President was careful to bow to semantics in saying "weapons program" or something to that effect. Sure, Iraq had a "program:" the lunatic in charge threw money toward scientists who made proposals. Those scientists then used the cash for other things: kind of like Halliburton (or CronyCo) If you knew you could get away with it, you would also do it.
Now serve and volley time for the Democrats taking the primary to New Hampshire. In other words, expect to hear a litany of variations on the theme: "The President lied and we need an investigation, and as president I would..."
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