September 17, 2004

MSNBC - Report: Iraq had no WMD, only intentions

MSNBC - Report: Iraq had no WMD, only intentions

Does this really come as a surprise to anyone? Anybody?

4 comments:

Noumena said...

Don Rumsfeld?

MosBen said...

Evidently it's as hard to get WMDs in Iraq as rose petals to throw at your liberators.

Noumena said...

Oh, and check out the cognitive dissonance on the NYT website: underneath the headline "Iraq Study Finds Desire for Arms, but Not Capacity", we have the summary "A new report is expected to conclude that Iraq had a clear intent to produce illicit weapons if U.N. sanctions were lifted." Do the people who write these summaries read the articles? Or at least the headlines?

Noumena said...

One last highlight: Bush is expected to talk about how this shows Hussein "sought" WMD. There are two senses of the word sought: to actively pursue and to abstractly desire as a long-term goal. The former is the sense the administration harked on again and again during the buildup, and is the sense Bush will no doubt imply in speeches he gives over the next month. But the report clearly indicates the latter sense.