As I watch TV, listen to the radio, and read the papers these days, I can't help but notice that a growing (annoying) portion of our country is teeing off on the Bush administration and the "failure" of our forces to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They claim that Bush is a liar, an idiot, and is part of a make-believe search for make-believe weapons; that all he wants is the oil.
It is these lascivious leftist loudmouths who lie when they make these claims, and those who disagree with them are often too wimpy to speak in opposition. I have a few points to mention that illustrate some elementary flaws in their thinking.
a. BUSH DOES NOT WANT THEIR OIL. Bush already HAS his OWN oil, and is VERY RICH from it, thank you very much. What he DOES want is the oil of Iraq to go the Iraqi people, so that might enjoy the same freedoms that we enjoy - and the Left bastardizes - in our country.
b. WE HAVE FOUND WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. ...The most deadly of which is called Saddaam Hussein, who, if you haven't noticed, hasn't been massively destructive lately. That's good enough for me. Any rusting shell or missile casings or jerry-rigged weapons that we happen to find laying around a Falafel Hut in Baghdad are just gravy to me. We will find them, however.
c. JESSE JACKSON IS AN IDIOT. This doesn't really fit in this piece, but that doesn't mean it's any less true.
We will continue to look for weapons of mass destruction until we find them. Heck, it hasn't been that long. Lefties have been looking for the missing link to prove evolution for hundreds of years, and nobody in the media complains that THEY keep looking and looking for something that doesn't exist. I figure our military and conservative administration has a few hundred years of futile searching to go before it can be deemed as brilliant as the Left.
...Just then, bigfoot flew out of my butt.
Go SOX!
I've always assumed we do want their oil. Maybe not for Bush or Cheney's personal gain, but for We the People. Why the heck didn't we go to Rhwanda, or anywhere else with viscious dictators, if it's just our good nature and love of democracy. We need foreign oil, but strategically, we have no leverage there. After things settle down, the goal is to have some leverage in the market, set up a shining example of democracy, and convert muslim-nations to democratic governments.
Of course I get all this through the rhetoric of WMD's and the axis of evil. Not that I'm a liberal skeptic, but I always assume that our reasons for war are not always altruistic.
Alec Baldwin would love me for this..
Posted by: cmwillis at October 2, 2003 09:08 PMi think you're actually right on this. i'm just running short of blog topics. i will say that the iraq hatred of america is vastly overexaggerated by the western media. if you notice, when they interview iraqi's that hate us, they ALWAYS speak really good English. yeah, they hate the west so much that they learned how to speaks very good english.
i really need to detonate my tv.
Posted by: bill colrus at October 2, 2003 11:46 PM