Great column.
Call this irony on a stick. Democrats are so obsessed trying to burn Bush, they can't even see what their revelations are really telling us. Yes, it is possible, and more likely true, that Saddam's WMD was moved beofre the war. Idiots!
Kerry announces WMD componetns found in Iraq. Well at least the poeple found out before the election :{)
"Connect the dots" indeed:
Where do they question the role of IAEA head Muhammad al Baradei, an Egyptian that President Bush announced a couple weeks ago the U.S. would NOT support for a second term?
Is it any coincidence the IAEA is leaking this stuff at this time?
1.77 metric tons of low-enriched uranium plus 380 tons of high explosives = Mother of all dirty bombs.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1259507/posts
MSNBC BREAKING NEWS: RUSSIANS MOVED EXPLOSIVES (Saw it on MSNBC Scarborough Country)
MSNBC with added Washington Times Link ^
Posted on 10/27/2004 7:58:47 PM PDT by MichaelTN04
Just saw on MSNBC Scarborough Country, Pat Buchanan said that the Wash Times is set to report that Russian Troops helped move the explosives and weapons to Syria before the invasion...
*******Washington Times Link
Remember the Left's "the [U.N.] inspections were working" mantra before the war? Well, before the war, even according to Hans Blix, tons of previously-reported WMD's were still missing and unaccounted for, even after years of inspections. How is it possible to say that those inspections were working - despite large quantities of missing material - yet blame Bush for missing explosives after the war began?
Remember the whole Chandra Levy thing? Several Clintonista types who I knew, who argued for 2 years that Clinton's "lying about sex" didn't matter, etc., suddenly switched gears when the Chandra Levy news surfaced. All of a sudden Gary Condit (who as far we as know was guilty *only* of adultery - like Clinton!) was a "bastard", for whom these lefties had so much hatred and contempt they could not contain it.
I think part of what we're seeing in both cases is a type of overcompensation. With Condit, lefties subconsciously felt guilty about excusing Clinton's crappy behavior for so long; Condit coming along gave them an outlet to redirect all that suppressed outrage, and to "prove" they still had a sense of morality.
With these explosives, it's the same thing. For a year now they've been obstinately clinging to the idea that if we haven't found WMDs, that proves Saddam had no WMDs and that he wasn't a threat to us at all. But they've had a subconscious fear of how this makes them look; so this explosives thing coming along gives them a chance to "prove" that Yes they do care about proliferation and terrorism and don't wish to turn a blind eye to it. Hence suddenly it becomes a HUGE DEAL all out of proportion to the facts.
Of course, not that rank political opportunism isn't a good enough explanation by itself, but still, I like mine :)