"Nyah, Nyah, Nyah!," they said

For several years now, we have heard our President smeared with, "Bush Lied - People Died." We have seemed him blamed for more than could ever be his fault, all because he uttered those fateful "sixteen words."

State of the Union speech (January 28, 2003): "The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

On the basis of our troops not being able to find the Weapons of Mass Death they expected to find upon crossing Iraqi border, the Liberal Left Media (a.k.a. the mainstream media and nearly every liberal blogger in the 'Sphere [kinda like the 'Hood]) started screaming about how this was a "Blood for Oil" war we'd just entered.

The Liberal Left Media didn't look at our entering of Iraq as an attempt to stop an evil, insane man and his sons and compatriots from continuing a reign of terror on their country.

They refused to even consider the concept of the result being huge numbers of men, women and children who had now been spared horrible fates due to death, torture, rape rooms, shredders.

They refused to consider the number of people who would no longer "disappear", never to be seen again.

They refused to see common people who were supposed to be getting aid in the infamous U.N. "Oil for Food" scandal subsisting on grass and drinking dirty canal water. The people who were getting the food seemed to be the same peoplel who always get it when we participate in aid programs ... the corrupt individuals in power, who skimmed off the money for food that the sale of their oil was supposed to provide. Instead it was used to build more palaces, increase weapons stockpiles, provide luxury for the few. In short, just the elite got the benefit ... just as the pigs did in Animal Farm ... now there's a rich comparison that would make Saddam roll over in his cell.

Last week Senators Rick Santorum and Pete Hoekstra reported on a portion of an unclassified document stating that Weapons of Mass Death had been found ~ 500 cans of mustard gas and sarin gas.  As Kevin McCullough says in this morning's Townhall.com article:

If you have been living under a rock here's the short measure of it. On Wednesday of this last week, Senator Rick Santorum and Congressman Peter Hoekstra revealed to the press for the first time the declassified portion of documents demonstrating that U.S. military had uncovered a minimum of 500 weaponized munitions that could in fact be used to deliver mustard and saran gas.

Senator Santorum confirmed on my radio broadcast (hear the audio here) that these weapons were the kind used to kill 5000 Kurds by Saddam. Saddam only needed 3 of these missiles to accomplish that feat - we've uncovered 500. That's enough nerve agents to kill more than 8.3 million people - or the Island of Manhattan, or the city of Chicago.

Now, as one can typically expect, the talking heads on the Left (and the Talking Fingers as well) can be counted on to try to discredit anything a Conservative says or does. The gist of what they're saying is, <insert looping, annoying whiny-assed sound file here> "...B-b-b-but that doesn't count. Those canisters were made before the Gulf War! The contents of those canisters is so old that it's degraded, so it obviously can't be used as a Weapon of Mass Death. I mean, c'mon, the mustard is probably so Grey Poupon-like that it can be used on sandwiches now!"

Of course, as we all know I've spent absolutely no time as a weapons inspector [that would be our dear friend Gullyborg], and I'm no science wiz ... but I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out that even degraded mustard gas will be no friend to the person who is exposed to it or gets it on them. And from what I've read, I've come to the conclusion that sarin doesn't degrade.

There's absolutely no reason to think that terrorist, should they get their hands on this stuff, would ever be heard saying, "Well, we can't use that! By Allah, that's not full-strength!"

Nope, what we're more likely to hear is something to the effect of, "What, in the name of Allah, do you think that will do?? I get dibs on the first 50 cans! Bring me an infidel to experiment on."

So ... over the past few years, we conservatives who have steadfastly believed that we did the right thing in liberating these people from Saddam/Qudai/Usai Hussein's evin run of power, and who believe we're still doing the right thing by trying to bring democracy to their country and teach them how to use it ... we are called hate-mongers, lovers of war, imperialists, racists (heck, we get called that for taking a breath!), and we're told we hate the Iraqis .. when we didn't even know we did, by the way.

But we have held firmly to our belief that the Weapons of Mass Death were there (at least at some point before the war) and that the bulk of them have been hidden extremely well or were shipped to Syria. No, we common folk (bloggers and non-bloggers alike) have no physical proof, no satellite images, no documents ... the vast majority of us don't run in the circles where some "asset" hands you off a piece of classified information. What we have had for the past several years, and a great many of us continue to have is ... well, it's a "gut feeling".

As I have reported previously we've had first hand knowledge that some of the weapons were removed from Iraq via outfitted 747 Jumbo and 727 jets to Damascus. General Georges Sada testified to as much on my show (hear the audio here.) But at that, there was always a suspicion that not all of the weapons had been able to be moved. I believe that the President firmly believed that they would in fact be uncovered by the respective United Nations inspection teams. But let's face it - the last U.N. Inspections team that actually found what it was looking for was immediately kicked out.

The announcement by Santorum also pointed out something else of keen importance. The declassified version of the report indicates that there are many more weapons likely to be found even yet in Iraq.

There may be perfectly legitimate reasons for waiting on the announcements of such, and even delaying the announcement weeks to months after the discovery. U.S. soldiers could be made vulnerable if the location of such stockpiles were made known to the jihadists who are composed of mostly foreign fighters in Iraq. Telegraphing in advance the knowledge of such weapon's existence might entice two sets of weapons' seekers to emerge.

It only makes sense. I just don't buy the argument that "Saddam was only saying that to make everyone afraid. He really didn't have anything stockpiled. He was just trying to puff up his importance and make everyone think he had them."

To my way of thinking, that's tantamount to a child psychologist telling a grieving parent that, "Your son/daughter didn't really mean to kill your spouse. He/She was just kidding and it got out of hand."

The New York Times, who has run hundreds of stories in the last two years on the global war on terror and attempted to reiterate on their news and editorial pages that the President lied to the American people - remained completely silent on the issue the day following the discovery. The Boston Globe committed all of two paragraphs. The Washington Post five. Yet combined these newspapers used thousands of paragraphs with huge, large font headlines to say again and again that the President had lied.

Has anyone seen an actual apology from the Left Media for calling our President a liar and demanding his impeachment for the inability of our troops to find the hidden weapons caches? No ... that would be the right thing to do. Instead, they cling desperately to the "lie" of those sixteen words.

The lying leftists, who will get all of us killed if we don't remain vigilant, were very slow to respond.

It is also worth noting that none of the leftists in the United States Congress have apologized for lying to the American people. They have not offered apologies to President Bush, and to add even more pain to their misery the Senate rejected John Kerry's, "pull out of Iraq now" bill by a vote of 86 to 13.

For a season or two the left has had what they thought was the smoking gun for the President and his party - to say he lied to the American people and weapons of mass destruction was what he lied about. What they would never address is how so many foreign intelligence agencies also concluded the same thing as the U.S. based on the best available evidence at the time. Heck, even John Kerry looked at the evidence and concluded that Saddam had weapons and was a threat. Turns out - all those intel agencies, our own CIA information, the administration, and most importantly our fighting men and women are now all justified. The U.S. was right all along.

That smoking gun has now been turned on themselves. For having told the American people their own form of a lie - that WMDs did not exist, and to do so - so many times they deserve every ounce of scrutiny and request for public apology that they receive.

It is also a disgrace that the media has done no more than yawn at the story or give meager back page mention of it when they were willing to tout long and loud that the President lied - with much less evidence that he did. Their callousness to the truth, their unwillingness to correct their positions or to report the facts and their willingness to slander a commander in chief - in the midst of war time are deserving of subscribers canceling their subscriptions in mass numbers. For if one can not depend upon the information they read - then they should get their information from more reliable sources.

As an American, we should stand proud today that even though left ran the spin for a while, the truth is coming out.

And as scripture says, the TRUTH will set you free..

Amen, and AMEN!

I think, however, that I agree to a great extent with one of the people who left a comment on the site of the online article:

You don't ACTUALLY expect John Kerry or Ted Kennedy or Nancy Pelosi or any of the other Democrats in Congress to APOLOGIZE to a man about whom they have been preaching their thunderous lies from the floor of Congress for six years, do you? Come on, now - let's be realistic about this.

What they will ACTUALLY do is find a way - or INVENT a way - to make the discovery of WMDs in Iraq look like bad news for America and for the U.S. military. Then, they will find a way - or INVENT a way - to make this "bad news" President Bush's fault.

How about this: "He should have found them earlier! This will just make things more dangerous for 'our troops!' (As if they actually cared about our heroes in uniform.) This is just another example of Bush's incompetence in handling this war! He should have TOLD us we'd find the WMDs! He kept the truth from the American people!! HE LIED!!!"

Anybody care to take bets on how long it'll take for the New York Times to spin this into "yet another miserable failure for the Bush Administration?"

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Comments

[Max]

I was against our invasion of Iraq, and still do not believe we should have gone in when we did.

Yes, the regime was pure evil, and contrary to the protestations of Murtha, Kerry, and the French, Saddam did have weapons of Mass Death.

However, our government's first obligation is to safeguard our citizens.

If we were to invade any country at that point in time, it seems clear that we should have invaded not Iraq, but Mexico.

Iraq posed a potential threat; Mexico has presented an ongoing invasion.

[Butch]

A big tall fence will stop that Mexican invasion. But Iraq IS a military threat...
http://santorum.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressOffice.View&ContentRecord_id=1891&CFID=20498994&CFTOKEN=49316876

[HMIL]

Maybe Mexico could be next, but it would be really hard to tell our legal latinos from their soldiers ... I like the solution I heard about three weeks back. Make the current illegals dig a huge moat, fill it with the problem gators from Florida, and build new levees in Nawlins with the dirt from the moat....then make the illegals swim back home again! (We can fly or drive the children home.)

[HMIL]

Max, I know a lot of people didn't see Iraq as a threat, but I personally can't the the possibility of Saddam *not* providing help to any terrorist organization that promised to use them on the US first. Al Quaeda and the rest of their ilk were engaged in a war on us from years ago and our government refused to acknowledge it, hoping that it would all go away if we ignored it and tried to play nice as a good example to the lesser enlightened. We were an easy target to terrorist groups and they all knew it (and they still know it .. we're just getting more creative and persistent in our intelligence gathering efforts).

However, I firmly agree with you that Mexico has presented an ongoing invasion....*and* that it's been going on for years. As much as I celebrate the majority of what President Reagan accomplished, I think his granting of amnesty in the 80s was one of the worst mistakes ever made in thsi country. And for President Clinton to once again ignore the problem in hope that if we were nice, they'd just learn that it was wrong...but he didn't care ... and his wife doesn't care ... and the liberals and national-level Dems don't care.

So, basically, it's war on more than one front with more than one problem. I imagine that most thinking people ... which would leave out the liberals, Dems and the progressive commie movement ... could agree with that.