They're Never Satisfied

So o.k, the kooks are not claiming that the WMDs found in Iraq (over 500 since 2003) were planted (yet) however, they are saying that "these are old weapons and were no threat to American troops or that of their allies." But I believe the argument (started by the left) was that there were no weapons of mass destruction at all! Now that they've indeed been found, the anti-victory sects are changing their arguments once again. Sounds eeirly like a John Kerry argument to me: "I voted for the war resolution so I could vote against it."

Or perhaps an analogy to the "most trusted man in news", Dan "Can't Stand Bush" Rather is more appropriate. You will remember during the 2004 presidential election, that Rather knowingly used false documentation about the President's National Guard service in an attempt to bring him down and to help implement John Kerry as the new commander-in-chief. After he was exposed, he figured a "heart-felt apology" would suffice in defusing the situation. But perhaps the best part in all of that was he claimed the documentation, that were proved to be false, were "fake but accurate". It makes you wonder just how "accurate" his claims on Richard Nixon were. The same biased, unresearched reports resulted in riots abroad when Newsweek magazine printed a story about the physically impossible act of Qu'arans being flushed down the toilet. People died as a result of it, and it never happened. At least they printed a retraction. A little too late it turns out, but at least, the very least, they admitted their mistake-with sincerity.

Moreover, the WMDs found in Iraq (why didn't they let the world know sooner, like as soon as they were found, is beyond me) proves that Saddam Hussein did in fact lie about not having any WMDs. It may not be the smoking gun that everyone was looking for, since it doesn't prove that Hussein had an ongoing WMD program. Facts, among others, that have been discovered, but conviently not reported by the mainstream media:

• A prison laboratory complex that may have been used for human testing of BW [biological weapons] agents and that "Iraqi officials working to prepare the U.N. inspections were explicitly ordered not to declare to the U.N. "why was Saddam interested in testing biological-warfare agents on humans if he didn't have a biological weapons program?"

• "Reference strains" of a wide variety of biological-weapons agents were found beneath the sink of a prominent Iraqi BW scientist. "We thought it was a big deal,"a senior administration official said. "But it has been written off [by the press] as a sort of "starter set".

• New research on BW-applicable agents, brucella and Congo-Crimean hemmoragic fever and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin that were not declared to the United Nations.

• A line of unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs, or drones, "not fully declared at an undeclared production facility and an admission that they had tested one of their delared UAVs out to a range of 500 kilometers [311 miles], 350 kilometers [217 miles] beyond the permissible limit".

• "Continuing covert capability to manufacture fuel propellant usful only for prohibited Scud-variant missles, a capability that was maintained until at least the end of 2001 and that c0-operating Iraqi scientists have said that they were to conceal from the U.N."

• Plans and advanced design work for new long-range missles with ranges up tp at least 1,000 kilometers [621 miles] -well beyond the 150 kilometer range-limit [93 miles] imposed by the U.N." Missles of a 1,000 kilometer range would have allowed Iraq to threaten targets throughout the Middle East, including Ankara [Turkey] Cairo [Egypt] and Abu Dhabi, [United Arab Emirates]."
  

"In addition, through interviews with Iraqi scientists, siezed documents and other evidence, the ISG [Iraqi Survey Group] learned the Iraqi government had made "clandestine attempts between late 1999 and 2002 to obtain from N. Korea technology related to 1300 kilometer range [807 miles] ballistic missles-probably the No Dong-300 kilometer range [186 miles] anti-ship cruise missles and other prohibited military equipment."

-David Kay, U.N. weapons inspector
source You may notice that this source page was written/posted April 26, 2004. A full two years ago.

However, we don't know all the facts about this yet and there are no doubt more to be discovered or reported about (or more likely not reported about) So it goes without saying that all the reports (especially in the New York Times ) about there being no WMDs are obviously very wrong, and every one of them should immediately appologize to the President, but don't hold your breath on that one. As of this writing, with the exception of the aforementioned opining about the WMDs found are "no good", to my knowledge not one reporter from any left-leaning newspapers or websites have made mention of the found WMDs as a good thing. But then again, that would give credibility to the Bush administration, now wouldn't it? But as usual, they keep on gulping down that Kool-Aid like it's going out of style. With people like Michael Moore, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Ted *hic* Kennedy, John Kerry, John Murtha and the whole editorial staff of the Daily Worker, oops I mean The New York Times, working against the President and his administration at every turn, there's no chance of any of their glasses being empty. However, that's not to say that their glasses aren't perpetually half-empty at any given time, either.