An Appetizer Or A Dessert?

clipped from www.powerlineblog.com Committee Democrats claim, though, that the NIE on Iraqi WMD was published “mere days” before Congress was scheduled to vote on the war resolution. Again, the Dems are attempting to mislead. The NIE in question was published nearly two weeks before the vote. Moreover, its key assessments had been presented to members of the Intelligence and Armed Services committees a month before the vote. Nor were these judgments new – numerous intelligence assessments had reached identical or similar judgments months earlier. The NIE that was produced in the fall of 2002 said with a "high level of confidence"--which is a defined term, expressing the greatest degree of confidence that the intelligence agencies ever express--that Iraq possessed chemical weapons; possessed biological weapons; and was pursuing nuclear weapons. It said, with a "moderate degree of confidence," that Iraq did not yet possess nuclear weapons.

This mental illness revolving around the belief that Saddam had somehow "gotten better" is frankly risible. Halabja anyone? Serial murderers get better?

It's of a piece with the liberal belief that we should release the "innocents" at Guantanamo -- without noting that there have already been incidents where we have released some and they have "re-offended". Shocka I know...

If things had continued on the pre-Iraq II vector, we would have had a re-run of the Iran-Iraq war only with nukes this time.

And Israel would have been footnoted as an appetizer or a dessert.

But then, basic abstract thought is a difficult thing to pursue in between multiple daily raves of Britney and Obama worship...