Remember the good old days when the airways were full of the lie of Iraqi WMDs? Remember our knee jerk response to the lie was to invade Iraq and bring them security and democracy?
Just how did that work out for us?
In those days the media played an integral part of the massive deception of the American people to support a war we knew would bite us in the butt……but we could not let Saddam use those weapons again. He had already gassed his own people, the Kurds to be exact……
Do you recall that after years of invasion and searching there were NO WMDs to be found…..remember that?
Well sports fans the media is at it again!
Gassing Iraqi Kurds was considered one of Saddam Hussein’s most heinous crimes, and American officials now suspect that ISIS is doing the exact same thing—and it may be using Saddam’s old weapons. Officials believe the militants used mustard gas, a chemical weapon banned worldwide in 1993, against Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq this week, reports the Wall Street Journal. The group’s battlefield use of the agent is obviously an extremely worrying development, officials say, and it’s not clear how ISIS obtained it: It could be from one of Saddam’s old stockpiles or from stockpiles in Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad claimed in 2013 that all the regime’s mustard gas had been destroyed.
“If they do possess these kind of weapons,” Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff tells CNN, “my guess is they’re more likely to have gotten them as old weapons left over in Iraq from the old WMD program there than they were likely to obtain them in Syria in some kind of a hidden cache of the regime’s.” ISIS seized the Saddam regime’s old chemical weapons plant last year, though officials said at the time that anything left there was probably useless. US officials have downplayed the risk to American personnel in Iraq, saying they’re not engaged in combat and, in any case, mustard gas “has to be used in high concentrations to be fatal,” the Journal reports. (In the years after the 2003 invasion, the US government
OMG! Here we go again! WMDs were used in 1990 and again in 2003…..seems like every 12 years or so they must make the case for a war in Iraq…..
Is this the open salvo from the media to gain popular support for sending in the troops to do the heavy lifting against ISIS?
Are the American people really that STUPID?
To answer the question, yes.
That said, a lot of the problem could be eliminated if we could somehow remind the mundanes of two simple facts: 1) The ONLY real weapon of mass destruction is the human imagination. Everything the assholes call a WMD is just a very complex example of a big rock, which we learned to throw back in our cave days. Many of us were so impressed with what we could do with the rock (the modern equivalent is the hammer), we got stuck on the idea, and have been refining it ever since with ever more complicated ways of throwing rocks at each other in our snits and tantrums to take what isn’t ours….
2) Not everything is a nail…
There’s an old saying that goes, “To a child with a hammer, everything looks like a nail… he’s going to pound on whatever he can convince himself is a nail, no matter what it is…” (I expanded it a little… guilty…) (that’s my hammer & nail…)
All those millions upon millions of mundanes, trained to listen to whomever spouts off to them on a TV or screen, or pulpit, without ever questioning what they are told, will take these BRC idiots at their word, never knowing the words have no meaning….But, even if they knew, they’ve been trained not to care, because thinking about it hurts…
Yes, they’re that stupid. Look where we are.
gigoid
It would be sad if it weren’t so damn pathetic….chuq
Agreed. Fortunately, there is a certain degree of entertainment factor arising out of the irony, not to mention the Keystone Kops script the GOP is following currently while the Toupe continues his dismantling of the party’s remaining relevance…
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GOP is always good for a good laugh and Trump is good for a side splitting laugh……chuq