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Wait - what?
Jul. 13th, 2004 07:41 pmOkay, so reports have been released that basically say that the intelligence claiming that Iraq had WMD essentially amounted to somebody finding a Post-It and scribbing down "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction" and everybody else in the CIA office going "Ehhh, yeah that's good enough for us.", Dubya spins this by basically saying sure, Iraq had no WMD, but they could have had them and very likely wanted to have them and use them against the US, so it's much the same thing, right? And in response to this we get:
a) Hardball questioning which returns to the issue of why didn't we go after North Korea, who not only had WMD and the desire to use them but also took the time to send us little Hallmark cards which read "We'd like to take this chance to say / we're going to nuke you the day after today" complete with dead cartoon bunnies on the front cover.
b) Hardball questioning wherein Dubya is asked what he's going to do about the fact that it's very likely that there's countries out there, let's say France for instance, who do not actually have fire-breathing dragons that can teleport over here and burn Washington DC to a cinder but it's very likely that they want fire-breathing dragons that can teleport over here and burn Washington DC to a cinder which basically amounts to much the same thing, right?
c) News media, like CNN for instance, which updates their Iraq war coverage to make sure to include mentions of the presumably significant fact that the reason we went to war is now one giant "Ooops, our bad"
d) Rioting in the streets
e) None of the above.
You know, I don't like living in the world where Onion articles aren't so much parody as restatements of the absurdities that are already happening. I think I'd like to wake up now.
a) Hardball questioning which returns to the issue of why didn't we go after North Korea, who not only had WMD and the desire to use them but also took the time to send us little Hallmark cards which read "We'd like to take this chance to say / we're going to nuke you the day after today" complete with dead cartoon bunnies on the front cover.
b) Hardball questioning wherein Dubya is asked what he's going to do about the fact that it's very likely that there's countries out there, let's say France for instance, who do not actually have fire-breathing dragons that can teleport over here and burn Washington DC to a cinder but it's very likely that they want fire-breathing dragons that can teleport over here and burn Washington DC to a cinder which basically amounts to much the same thing, right?
c) News media, like CNN for instance, which updates their Iraq war coverage to make sure to include mentions of the presumably significant fact that the reason we went to war is now one giant "Ooops, our bad"
d) Rioting in the streets
e) None of the above.
You know, I don't like living in the world where Onion articles aren't so much parody as restatements of the absurdities that are already happening. I think I'd like to wake up now.
