Oh Jesus, conservatives still using the Saddam/WMD argument

[ck4829]

Robert Spencer, one of the nation's leading experts on the Islamic religion, says he doesn't understand why the Bush administration has not jumped on a recent report that confirms former dictator Saddam Hussein intended to reconstitute his weapons of mass destruction.

Recently CBS's 60 Minutes aired an interview with George Piro, a Lebanese-born FBI agent, who debriefed Saddam Hussein following his capture in December 2003. Piro was able to get Hussein to admit that while he did not have active WMD programs in 2003, he wanted to reconstitute all of them -- chemical, biological, and even nuclear.

Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, says the White House should be all over this story. "It's ironic really, that oddly enough the Bush administration -- with so much to lose and so much damage to its credibility over the years because of these allegations -- has not jumped on these kinds of reports and made sure that they came to the broadest audience possible," he ponders.

The Islamic expert says Piro's comments ought to debunk the critics who say the Iraq invasion had nothing to do with the global war on Islamic terrorism. "It's clear that it's all part of the same thing, that there is the Jihad ideology that is universal and is held by those in Iraq as well as so many others around the world -- and that's part of a larger struggle," argues Spencer.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Security/Default.aspx?id=66956

Is Robert Spencer on crack? Is George Piro a liar? Is the White House not jumping on this story because it's either not true or because they know nobody will believe them? Is it all of the above? You be the judge!

[sandnsea]

1. We don't go to war over delusions

Well, apparently we do, only this time we went to war over the delusions of George Bush, PNAC, and way too many trusted leaders.

[Mountainman]

2. That's all the right has to run on. Terror terror terror fear fear fear.

I was wondering why they don't talk about health care or the economy. All I here from the right is that we will be hit with terrorism if a Dem is elected.

I think now it is because all they have left in their base is the knuckle dragging freeper ditto head types and that what sells to them.

[Fovea]

3. Now, let me get this straight

Spencer wants POTUS to run with the torturiffic story that Saddam gurggled out their entire rationale for war to Piro, who is not, they swear, nicknamed curveball.

Up next, mounting evidence that Julius and Ethel Rosenburg are *still* selling secrets to the evil empire! Do they need to be executed again?

[sinkingfeeling]

4. And I want to be the smartest and richest person on the planet. So what? Saddam 'wanted to'

is a reason to invade and occupy a nation? To murder over 1 million Iraqis? To waste $562 billion? To have 4000 of our military personnel killed and tens of thousands wounded? Oh, yeah, sure thing.