April 13, 2004
Recipe For Disaster
The Mehr News Agency, in Tehran, is reporting that the United States is smuggling Weapons of Mass Destruction into Iraq, to be planted and then later "revealed" -- thereby exonerating the Bush Administration's war planners.
Now, the Bush Administration is stupid enough if it thinks that the World is going to believe that it would be able to suddenly find a stash of WMD, without locating production facilities. (On the other hand, it probably doesn't really give a fuck if the World believes it, so long as American voters do.) Both David Kay and Hans Blix (as well as Iraqi defectors and scientists) have stated pretty unequivocally that Saddam's WMD, and his regime's capability to produce them, were destroyed long ago.
However, these shenanigans could prove to be much more than just stupid, when we take into account the magnified level of attacks upon U.S. supplies convoys. The WMD are allegedly being smuggled via un-registered containers, masked as relief shipments and, according to one member of the Iraqi Governing Council, disguised as fuel supplies.
So, say you're driving a convoy filled with "relief supplies". Not only is there an increasing likelihood that the convoy will come under attack. But now you've also got to worry that an Iraqi guerilla will fire a rocket at a "fuel" container, releasing "biological and bacterial toxins" into the atmosphere.
Give the Bush Administration this much: never a dull moment.
Posted by Eddie Tews at April 13, 2004 10:05 AM
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