CBS: Bush Thinks WMDs Will Be Found

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/25/iraq/main560449.shtml

The White House was on the defensive Thursday over a preliminary CIA report that indicated no weapons of mass destruction have been found during almost four months of searching in Iraq.

Spokesman Scott McClellan says President Bush still believes actual chemical and/or biological weapons will be discovered in Iraq. He says Mr. Bush wants weapons investigator David Kay to "pull together" the facts on Iraq's WMD, CBS News White House Correspondent Peter Maer reports.

A week after administration officials rejected any links between Saddam Hussein and the Sept. 11 strikes on New York and Washington, McClellan again linked the Iraq war to the 2001 terrorist attacks, saying, "In light of September 11th, that (Iraqi) threat became more real and the need to confront that threat became even more real."

[lanlady]

1. Jesus H. friggin' Christ

Nov. 2004 can't come soon enough.

[diplomats]

19. You said it

Each time I think I've heard the most asinine comment possible from this WH they go out and top themselves. Lord help us!

[NoKingGeorge]

21. Delay tied 9/11 and Iraq

Saw Delay (creepy looking freak) talking to a rightwing circle jerk last night and he had 9/11 and Iraq in every sentence. Didn't his pimp, Rove ,tell him that the deserter admitted no connection?

[zbdent]

26. More like January 21 2005

The first full day of the start of the cleanup.

Watch for a lot of missing hard drives and such ("Clinton/Gore did it!" - whoops, that was the missing Ws on the keyboard. Bush I took all the hard drives out of the computers.)

[skip fox]

2. Yeah, yeah, and I could still

win the lottery! You bet.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. This strategy will be played out until after the election.

Lie. Retreat. Parse. Admit. Infer. Lie. Retreat. Parse. Admit. Infer.

Repeat ad nauseum.

[underpants]

6. Yep that's how they think they can get away with it

:grr:

ON EDIT-They are just trying to buy time to the election and eventually (we do all hope) things calm down there and "ends justify the means" crowd will be heard yelling from the rooftops.

Like I said I hope things get better but don't really expect them to.

[salin]

4. our childlike president

but the fairytale story book given to me by Rummy, CHeney and Wolfie showed the evil oger/sadam with WMDs... I saw the pictures... we KNOW they are there... I saw the pictures... go find them....

Somehow Little Edith (Lily Tomlin in Laughin) comes to mind.

[Zhade]

38. I think I heard that the pop-up of Hussein made the Chimp wet his pants?

NT!

[PurityOfEssence]

63. The Mean Widdoe Kid

Little Lord Fauntleroy out looking for more frogs...

Isn't this "belief" stuff scary sometimes?

[Don_G]

5. We've Found Them!

"Words of Mass Delusion" every time Dimbo opens his mouth.

[malachi]

30. "Words of Mass Delusion"

Nice one. Mind if I borrow it?

[calimary]

52. How 'bout "Whoppers of Mass Distraction"?

He's already found a bajillion of those.

[Cappurr]

7. Doesn't this idiot realize

That unless he brings in UN Weapons inspectors (pretty damned unlikly) No-one except Bob Novack, George Will and Richard Perle will believe they weren't planted?

[FlashHarry]

8. How can something become 'more real?'

I don't get it. Do WMD appear from thin air after 9/11? Do ploughs and tractors transmogrify into missiles and centrifuges? This seems bizarre to me.

[TahitiNut]

15. Interesting allusion.

How strange (ironic?) it would be for them to discover that Saddam actually "beat his swords into plowshares"!

[Ashcroft Kutcher]

9. Get Over It

WMD were so last year, terrorists attacked us. Sex slaves are what really matters.

[davekriss]

48. LOL

Thanks for the chuckle!

[calimary]

53. Welcome to DU!, davekriss! Bush might say "there MUST be a pony!"

"There just MUST be a pony under all that horse shit." Denial runs awfully deep.

[grytpype]

10. Don't forget, he doesn't read newspapers.

He gets all his information from Rice and Card. And what are they telling him? Who knows, but it isn't too likely to resemble the truth.

[GreenGreenLimaBean]

11. Yeah, and my 5 year old believes in the Tooth Fairy

I believe bush* has been cut out of the loop by cheney and rummy.
The next 12 months could(will) be a very dangerous time.

[The Magistrate]

12. This Jackanapes

Believes he was placed in the office he stole by supernatural power, as the personal elect of the diety. Other delusions are only to be expected.

What he really needs is a few stiff belts of whiskey....

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[TahitiNut]

13. "Bush Thinks"?? I'd have to see proof the first 2 words are even true.

Independent of the subject, I'm dubious that whatever biochemical processes that take place in Bush*s carcass can be fairly called "thinking".

[karlschneider]

17. Bush's brain: 1 lonely neuron frantically searching for a soulmate.

:eyes:

[Sideways]

28. Ahh Gawd I Am Laughing My Tiny Ass Off

Stop it TN and Karl pretty soon I will have no bottom at all!:evilgrin:

[Jackpine Radical]

29. Just envisioning that lonely neuron, axon circling around

to connect with dendrite so it can synapse with itself. Gives a whole new image to the idea of mental masturbation.

[Ashcroft Kutcher]

14. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo

Sex slaves and the California Recall is what matters. Terrorists attacked us on September 11th.

[calimary]

54. Ashcroft Kutcher, 'eh? Welcome to DU!

[onehandle]

16. Of course....

I'm sure that a few rusting barrels containing the drippings of what the Reagan and Bush administrations sold them will be found.

Now show me that they had the capability to use it anywhere outside of Iraq in 45 minutes or less.

[leetrisck]

18. It really doesn't matter anymore

It's a little late in the day to still be saying we are going to find them. So what if we do - if they are that well hidden they certainly were not an imminent threat and their so-called military couldn't haven gotten to them anyway. A lie is a lie any way you look it on this WMD thing.

[Wednesdays]

20. And King Arthur and the Knights of Ni will find the Holy Grail.

Really, they are! Any day now!

[hatrack]

23. Then, Bush must find the mightiest tree in the forest . . .

. . . and cut it down - WIIIIIIIIIIIIITH - a HERRING!!! ;-)

[Zhade]

40. A Herring of Mass Destruction?

NT!

[Nottingham]

22. Well that Saddam Defense Minister will come up with some

thats why he gets off scot free!

:bounce:

[FlemingsGhost]

34. It is a distinct possibility.

Given the last three years, I believe BushCo to be capable of ANYTHING. But how are they going to plant WMDs in such chaos?

If it goes indeed go down... props to you, Nottingham. You've been on it like a laser beam.

[whyaduck]

24. de·lu·sion

1. A false belief or opinion: labored under the delusion that success was at hand.

2. Psychiatry. A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness: delusions of persecution.

[calimary]

56. One of my favorite people had that for a license plate! Whyaduck!

Welcome to DU!

And you're correct, he's certainly delusional. Wonder if he's started talking to the paintings yet.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

25. OK, time for an intervention

He's obviously on coke again.

[underpants]

27. The Easterbunny has them

unless of course the Easterbunny gave them to the toothfairy to make us look bad.

:eyes:

[jbw121]

31. Resignation

One of the Dean folks mentioned it vis a vis this link https://contribute.johnkerry.com/?team=0032

People should be fired over this t-shirt outrage

[Minstrel Boy]

47. "For those who say we haven't found

the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong. We found them." - Bush, May 30

Of course, he was talking about the "mobile labs" which proved to be for the production of weather balloons.

on edit: Sorry, I didn't mean for this to be a reply to the t-shirt post.

[calimary]

57. Welcome, welcome!

Resignation would be most welcome, coming from that schmuck. But when could we ever count on him to do the right thing?

[7th_Sephiroth]

32. Its gotta be something more potent than coke

i mean look at his eyes, thier just coal black, no spark of even a SINGLE brain cell

[AndyTiedye]

35. Do You Remember the "Stepford Wives"?

The androids had eyes just like that.

[Zhade]

41. I'm convinced Cheney is an android, so...

NT!

[calimary]

58. Welcome, welcome, to you, also!

His eyes are empty, just as you've said. Nobody home in there.

[young_at_heart]

33. I wish the media would pounce on this as they should

It's time to WAKE UP to the horrible mess these people have gotten us into.

[returnable]

36. Bush also thinks...

...he won the election :)

[Manix]

37. Bush makes the case why people of low intellect should not be in power

...get that son of a bitch outta there!!!!

[calimary]

59. Good heavens, two of you at once!

Returnable and Manix - welcome to DU!!! Delighted to have you here! How many new people on just this thread alone?

[davidinalameda]

39. and I think that pigs will start flying out of my butt!

is this man serious or is he still trying to cover his ass?

the more I see of Bush, the more I have to wonder if all those years of drug abuse ate holes in his brain

[radfringe]

42. he only "thinks" WMD's will be found

damn... and here I thought all along that Iraq was just chock full of WMD's ready to destroy the universe in 45 minutes....

[Heddi]

43. well I *think* I'll win the lotto one day

I also *think* that if I wish hard enough, $20 bills will come floating down my chimney.

My husband *thinks* that if he gives me goo-goo eyes that I'll start cooking more often.

My mother *thinks* that I will have a child one day.

My mother also *thinks* I will suddenly move back to South Carolina and never leave again.

Of course, none of those things will happen. We only *THINK* they will happen.

Of course, the logic of "thinking" and "being" (meaning that they're two very different concepts) are far beyond the mental capacity of our oh-so-illustrious leader.....

[Dead_Parrot]

44. BREAKING NEWS!

Dead_Parrot thinks the sun shines out of Skinners Arse. The CIA are investigating...

[jbm]

45. Bush must have missed the new 'right wing spin' briefing...

The latest talking point I've heard on this is that "when Bush realized he'd made a mistake and there were no WMDs,he was honest about it and told the American people. "Other" administrations in the past would have headed right out and planted them. The fact that the American people are even finding out there are no WMDs is a testimony to his character and integrity!"

Somebody needs to tell Bush right quick that he's blowing the new spin!!

[rocktivity]

46. Bush HAS to think theat WMDs will be found!

...weapons hunters have found what they interpret as evidence of Iraqi preparations to secretly produce chemical and biological weapons...(Evidence)...suggests plans for weapons production that was to take place primarily at...buildings with an overt, legitimate purpose, such as making pesticides or pharmaceuticals...But (have) equipment also can be used to make weapons
Interpret? Suggests? CAN be used? Are they for real? Close only counts when you're pitching horseshoes.

(The)...evidence is primarily drawn from documents and interviews with Iraqi officials...
Before or after they were tortured?


U.S. and British officials have not disclosed any discoveries that would validate their prewar assertions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction ready to use.
And that's the bottom line, kiddies. If the Kay report doesn't back up the prewar assertions, that's all she wrote.


rocknation

[Jack Rabbit]

49. Bush looks like an idiot

Well, I said that about Jack Straw this morning when he, too, said that he still believes WMDs will be found. Of course, a clown suitg looks more natural on Bush than it does on Straw. I wonder of a flight suit would look more natural on Mr. Straw.

Anybody who still believes WMDs will be found in Iraq should be given a shovel, thrown on the next plane to Baghdad and told to start digging.

We'll start with the Frat Boy.

[Mari333]

50. and Im the Queen of Sheba!!

No its true!! I swear!

[MariMayans]

51. You would think he would just shut up about it

Why the hell does he keep bringing it up? I don't even understand why he disabused the half-awake in this country that Saddam Hussein and bin Ladin worked at cross purposes. This is absolute political incompetance and can only be explained if he really, really, really, believed his fairy tale and is honestly confused now.

[calimary]

60. I am incredibly impressed with all the new people here!

Way to go, you guys! MariMayans, welcome to DU! I choose to interpret this as a good sign - hopefully a metaphor of the gathering strength out there, in general.

[Starpass]

55. You guys won't be laughing when one goes off in one of our major

cities........and that is what really, really scares me 'cause if that's what it takes to get Bush back in for four more years or forever, then that's what it takes. That's why when they talk like that I get this creepy, snakey feeling. I agree---the elections can't come soon enough.

[kutastha]

61. ...

I think another 'attack' would only further send him down the shitter. He had his chance with high numbers and blew it. If something happens, it will just prove he didn't do shit in the war on terra.

[Robin Hood]

62. And I think that one day I'll win the powerball.

I keep playing, and I keep losing. THere is no jackpot in Iraq.