(Note to literalists: the Watched column presently contains only a smattering of 'warblogs' because the facilitator of the template-change--Dr. Menlo--is not very familiar with them, and will be adding more as they are sent to him. Also, this blog may contain areas of allusion, satire, subtext, context and possibly even a dash of the surreal: wannabe lit-crits beware.)
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[Watch this space for: Pentagon and Petroleum, The Media is only as Liberal as the Corporations Who Own Them, Wash Down With, and Recalcify]
WARBLOGGER WATCH
Saturday, April 12, 2003
"President" George W. Bush, White House Briefing, March 6, 2003: "He has weapons of mass destruction."
The Baltimore Sun, March 19, 2003:
Should an Iraqi attack employing chemical or biological weapons not materialize, however, the burden would fall to U.S. forces to find and expose to the world the deadly arsenal that Bush and others have long insisted Hussein possesses.
"If Iraq doesn't use chemical or biological weapons, and an investigation of the Iraqi program reveals just a small amount, we will clearly have egg on our face, and it could undermine the Bush administration's justification for going to war," said David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington research organization.
Belfast Telegraph, April 11, 2003:
Twenty-two days after the invasion of Iraq, British and American forces have yet to confirm a finding of weapons of mass destruction.
Reuters, April 12, 2003: "U.S. offers reward for news on Saddam, WMD"
So, we knew he had them - an assertion presumably based on evidence. This evidence served as a justification for the war. War waged, we're now paying people to give us evidence to serve as justification. Seems about right. Heh. Indeed.
