What exactly is the cheeseburgers in California analogy?
It was posted here on FR by another FReeper when we first went into Iraq. And it made perfect sense.
Iraq is roughly the size of California. We know there are cheeseburgers in California. We've seen them and people who have eaten them have told us. But cheeseburgers are illegal so we go in to inspect.
Before we go in, we spend 6 months getting buy-in from all the other states. In those 6 months California shuts down all of the places that sell cheeseburgers and move any remaining cheeseburgers to Oregon and Washington. So by the time we get there, we find cows, wheat, lettuce fields, tomatoes, and grills. The butchers are now only butchering pigs and chickens. But we find no cheeseburgers.
Everything to make them is there, easily available and the people who know how to make them are there. And the day we leave, there are again cheeseburgers in California.
That's the way I see the WMD in Iraq. And I am glad we went in.
Becki