Chickens and Eggs
June 3, 2004
It’s official...there are no WMD’s in Iraq! Just ask any “Hit and Run” journalist. Quicker than a Kerry-Flip-Flop, the newspaper of broken-records has executed a “Crazy Ivan”...or is it a “Crazy Maureen”? Well...whatever. The New York Times, along with the rest of the elite media, keeps playing the “White Album” backwards...”There are no WMD’s...There are no WMD’s...There are no WMD’s”.
In a recent bit of Bush-Bashing, Maureen Dowd choked out some backhanded approval for the World War II memorial and our “adorable World War II veterans rolling in wheelchairs”. “Adorable” is such an Upper West Side qualifier for heroes best described as...HEROES! Perhaps Dowd was thinking about Catherine Zeta-Jones in the “adorable” context...probably not.
It didn’t take Dowd long to remind us that when “The Japanese bombed us; they didn't have putatively threatening ‘weapons of mass destruction-related program activities,’ as President Bush said of Iraq.” Maybe Dowd should visit the 300,000 graves of the Nanking massacre victims and let their souls whisper “Unit 731” into her “adorable” ears. Of course that started in 1937.
From the BBC archives Dowd might discover that, in 1940, “Japan's wartime military bombed a Chinese city with bubonic plague carrying fleas, triggering a serious outbreak of the disease.” Starting in 1942, the Japanese also launched 9000 high altitude balloons into the winds headed for the U.S. west coast. From the archives of the U.S. Air Force museum Dowd could learn that “These balloons...offered a vehicle for germ warfare”. So it turns out that the Japs had WMD’s and delivery vehicles. It also turns out that Dowd’s command of facts is limited.
In another episode of “adorable” senior-moment reporting, Dowd digs at the President again...”Although conservatives compared Saddam to Hitler, America did not have to be persuaded with ‘actionable’ intelligence before confronting Hitler.”
If Maureen would just give Teddy a call, he could tell her (between hits off the scotch bottle) that his daddy and many other Democrats preferred to ignore a holocaust in progress. In his book "Sins of the Father," Ronald Kessler, tells of a 1938 meeting where Joseph Kennedy "...assured the German ambassador that America only wanted friendly relations with Hitler." The U.S. did not declare war on Germany until Hitler declared war on the U.S. immediately following the Pearl Harbor attack.
Interestingly enough, the New York Times, as part of its 1936 Berlin Olympics coverage, reported that the Olympics put Germans "back in the fold of nations," and even made them "more human again." Isn’t that “adorable” reporting. I was never aware that Jayson Blair covered the 1936 Olympics!
While trying to pacify his readers with a muddled mea culpa over the NYT’s “Hit and Run” journalism during the build-up to the war in Iraq, Daniel Okrent, rehashed the old “...between September 2002 and June 2003, the impression that Saddam Hussein possessed, or was acquiring, a frightening arsenal of W.M.D. seemed unmistakable. Except, of course, it appears to have been mistaken.”
Okrent contritely bashes the Administration by denying contriteness...” I don't mean further acts of contrition...but a series of aggressively reported stories detailing the misinformation, disinformation and suspect analysis that led virtually the entire world to believe Hussein had W.M.D. at his disposal.” OK already...I get it...the NYT’s has declared, with the same judgment-proof certainty of their prior reporting to the contrary, that there are no WMD’s.
Perhaps there were never any terrorists either. Perhaps this entire war against terrorism is a figment of President Bush’s “adorable” imagination. Of one thing we can be certain...there is certainly no longer any World Trade Center! Or maybe if I read the NYT’s and squint hard enough, the Twin Towers will come into vision.
Dowd and the rest of her Mad Hatters are perpetually sitting around an “adorable” tea table in Wonderland. They are as crazy, discourteous and confusing as the March Hare.
Let’s keep this simple. From the left-wing Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Joseph Cirincione reports that “After the Gulf War...it is widely believed that significant quantities of chemical agents and precursors remain stored in secret depots” in Iraq. Specifically, “Iraq may have retained up to 600 metric tons of such agents — including VX, mustard gas and sarin.”
Even a 1999 Blix-inspired U.N. inspectors’ report found that “Iraq had failed to account for...1.5 tons of VX gas, 8,000 liters of anthrax, 7,000 liters of botulinum toxin and nearly 1,000 liters of aflatoxin, a potent carcinogen.”
But...I guess that the Liberal desire to destroy Bush supersedes the need to destroy the terrorists. So, with a few pokes at their magic keyboards, the NYT’s made all those WMD’s disappear and we can safely go back to tea-time.
Get real...the WMD’s are still out there someplace. Add to this the unaccounted for Soviet-era suitcase nukes, bio weapons and the nuclear treachery of Pakistan’s Dr. A.Q. Khan...well...Dowd can sleep soundly with whoever she manages to drag home, but I ain’t buying it. There is a world of hurt awaiting a U.S. population all too easily willing to accept the unacceptable.
America is threatened by an international terrorist army with the means, and the willingness, to acquire and use WMD’s against our civilian population. These WMD’s are sleeping silently in their Middle Eastern spider holes or already in the clandestine trade pipeline and heading for our shores.
So...you can listen to Dowd & Co. who prefer to sit around the tea-table tirelessly launching weapons of mass invective at the President over Abu Ghraib or...you can face reality. Tons of extremely lethal WMD’s do not magically disappear into thin air. We are certain that Hussein had these weapons, but where are they now? Not even the “adorable” assurances of the NYT’s should convince anybody to count “there are no WMD’s” before they’re hatched.