David Kay: "IRAQ POSED AN IMMINENT THREAT"

[mburbank]

"I'll just use postmodern theoretical tools to point out that perfect communication is impossible, and therefore, you have no idea what he was trying to say."
-Once is Enough

Uh huh. I get what you're saying. You're being ironic with the whole post modern thing because you don't believe in it and talking theory gives you a chubby. But you're using that irony to support the idea that Bush didn't mean what I think he meant, which is kind of not how you use irony.

That abuse of language aside, when W said:


"There is no doubt the Iraqi regime continues to possess the most lethal weapons ever devised,"
W, 3/17/03


What do you figure he meant? By 'No Doubt' I guess he might have meant, 'I'm not totally sure but I think so. I guess I'm pretty sure'. Or maybe he meant 'There is no doubt this is what I've been told by people who told me they have no doubt'. Or maybe by 'most lethal', he meant 'most lethal except for other more lethal weapons.' I think I can give him that one, cause, like, if a pointy stick kills you, that's lethal, right? So a nuclear warhead in't reallly more lethal than a pointed stick. I guess what your saying is that when the President speaks, we both know it doesn't mean anything at all in any way, and he should be no more accountable for saying there was no doubt than he would be if he'd just said "Cow cow cow cow cow cow cow."

Here are the possabilities as I interpret them.

A.) W. was wrong about the WMD, which was the major reason we went to war.
B.) W. was wrong about the WMD, but he thought there were lots of good reasons to go to war and he only played up the WMD becuase it sold the idea. But he really did believe there were WMD.
C.) W. didn't give a crap if there were WMD or not. We were going, and if the American public could latch on to the whole WMD thing, so be it. It didn't matter much to him one way or the other.
D.) W. lied.


All of those options suck. Only B is tolerable, and only IF he says "We were wrong about the WMD, and we were wrong to sell that as the primary reason for going to war".

I think B even might be true, for W. I don't think for a second it's true for Chenney or Rumsfled or any of the other actually smart people in the inner circle.