The Shrillblog: The FACTS Have Joined The Order of the Shrill!!

[tomfodw]

Poor George: now even reality is conspiring against him. Time for Karl Rove to elect a new universe!

The FACTS Have Joined The Order of the Shrill!!

An event of unparalleled significance has occurred! Effective today, The Order has officially recognized the facts themselves as shrill and unbalanced, decisively breaking against the will of George W. Bush. The truth is now in diametrical opposition to the Bush government, and has in this extraordinary case conclusively proven the mendacity, malevolence, incompetence, and simple disconnection from reality of the George W. Bush administration.

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October 24th: The Nelson Report broke the story that 760,000 pounds of high explosive--the same type used in car bombs, terrorist attacks, and nuclear bomb detonators--was looted from a well-known ammunition dump outside of Baghdad in the days following the U.S. invasion. For reference, a single pound of this explosive was used to down Pan Am flight 103. The report was triggered by a letter from the IAEA which learned of the plundered materials from the Iraqi government on October 10th.

But the Bush administration knew 18 month earlier: "The Iraqi authorities were...under heavy pressure from their sponsors in DOD and US occupation authorities not to cooperate with the IAEA, by confirming that all 350 tons of sealed explosives could not be accounted for, the Iraqi’s had to wait until the formal turnover of authority before notifying the IAEA, sources here suggest. So the Iraqis failed to act until Oct. 10, and the IAEA did not formally notify the US, by letter, until Oct. 15, according to the State Department’s official press guidance."

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According to former Iraq weapons inspector David Kay there are 80 such sites in Iraq--and that the evidence is damning.

The facts have become unbearably shrill. They explicitly show:

mendacity -- to repeatedly lie about what was known about this incredible failure of security and planning
malevolence -- to try to shift the blame to the troops, the Iraqis, the Russians, and anyone else they can think of
incompetence -- knowing the location of the explosives since 1991 but not having a plan to secure them
disconnection from reality -- to believe that reasonable people can look at this and think that the safety of the U.S. or Iraq is best served by this administration

And so we lower our heads and chant with increasingly shrill voices:

Aaaiii! Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Da Motherfuckin' Facts Beyotch R'lyeh Wagn'nagl Fhtagn! Aaaiii!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!