More WMD fraud

Rep. Chris Cox isn't the only one claiming that WMDs were in Iraq before we invaded. The liberal group Media Matters documented Rush Limbaugh doing the same thing on Monday:

LIMBAUGH: The New York Times' big story yesterday, it's all about how these serious weapons in Iraq were looted after we invaded Baghdad. And, of course, this is nothing more than a rehash of the story they tried to run, they did run.

They tried to gin people up against Bush one week before the election, remember that? Same thing, weapons looted, weapons missing, the whole thing. It's just amazing. I don't know how else to describe it. Still trying to drum up anti-war sentiment, Bush is incompetent, Bush is a boob. It's just amazing.

They can't get off of it. It illustrates they're stubborn and they're hell-bent on convincing people of this, to hell with everything else that might be going on in the world, factual or otherwise. But, in the process, they end up admitting that the weapons were there all along.

And that horrible weapons were there. So, Bush could not have lied about it. And yet, the whole basis, if there's a foundation for the Democratic Party's current anti-war position, it is that Bush lied. And, of course, that's the foundation of Michael Moore's stupid piece of propaganda. It's that Bush lied. Bush didn't lie. And, The New York Times, as much as said so yesterday.

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LIMBAUGH: The New York Times reports that there were horrible weapons in Iraq and they got secreted out of there after we invaded. And, it's Bush's fault because he's an idiot. But, their point all along has been there weren't any weapons, that Bush lied about it. Now all of a sudden Bush didn't lie, he's so inept and the weapons got looted before they could round them up.

Of course, the Times article did not document the looting of weapons, but specialized machinery that could be used in WMD production. This kind of misinformation is why so many Americans continue to believe (PDF) that Iraq had WMDs.

Comments

[William Squire]

If Bush lied, so did Kennedy, Pelosi, Albright, Kerry, and the Clintons. A lie requires intent. Lets use some intelligence. Assuming there never were WMDs, which we already know is false, Intelligence agencies all over the world made the exact same mistake. Yet the far-left in the U.S. portray the scene as a Bush-controlled global consipracy. It is despicable.