Something that no one quite seems to get in this whole WMD thing.
Also Titled:
Even Saddam thought Iraq had WMD
After having dozens of Bush-hating friends tell me "Bush lied", and after reading pages and pages of everything Bush said (gotta love the internet), I have to say that Bush never lied. Nor did he say that we knew for sure that Iraq had WMD. Instead, Bush and his spokesmen were very explicit about we knew for sure and what we didn't know. The best you can approximate really is that Bush said:
"We think Iraq has WMD, and that's a bad thing".
Note that Bush's statements were summarized differently by the media, but you can't blame Bush for how the media edits his words. Of course, we know now that we were wrong, but the most interesting thing about all this is that what David Kay found Iraq was that while Iraq had plenty of programs _trying_ to make WMD. However, in general, the scientists were lying to Saddam. Specifically Jafar Jafar, the head of weapons research was lying to Saddam. This makes some of the statements by Saddam about "unleashing a rain of fire upon US troops if they invaded" make a little more sense. Saddam thought he had weapons he didn't have.
The irony of all this is incredible to me. Currently, I keep fantasizing about having Tommy Chong play Hussien, with Cheech Marin as Jafar in a Saturday Night Live skit.
Saddam (played by Chong): Dude, I need to score some killer weapons to keep these Americans off my back, man.
Jafar: (played by Cheech): No can do, dude.
Saddam: Well, then I'm going to have to kill you then, dude.
Jafar: No, wait dude, I know how to build some killer weapons, but its going to be expensive. I just thought you wouldn't want to spend the money.
Saddam: Cool, Man, here's $1B.
Jafar: (bugs eyes) Bitchin' Man, I can get...uh...make some killer powder with this man...
(...Time Passes...)
Jafar: (snorting from bag of white powder, his "digs" are much nicer now...) This is some killer stuff man.
(Saddam Enters)
Saddam: Hey, dude, how's it hanging? Got any cool weapons for me.
Jafar: (looks nervous, looks around wildly, sees white powder, looks back at Saddam) Uh.... Yeah man! I got this killer powder, its, uh, Anthrax. Yeah, it will really fuck you up man...it'll totally waste 'em.
Saddam: Great! Give me that (takes bag of white powder) I'm going to load it into my Scuds right now!
(leaves)
Jafar: (dials phone) Hello, Travelocity? I need a ticket to Kuwait...
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