Fred Thompson must be in a time warp, its the only excuse I can come up with for his brand of lunacy. Doesn't he know that believing there are WMDs in Iraq is so 2003? Not that any clearly thinking person who knew anything about Iraq didn't know that back then, but sometimes it takes a little while for the public to catch on.
Fortunately for Thompson, there is a base he can turn to, the faithful 29 percent. Those 29 percenters still believe the lies that come out of Dick Cheney and George Bush's mouth. Damn, they might even believe that we are still in the last throes of the insurgency.
From The Des Moines Register:
“We can’t forget the fact that although at a particular point in time we never found any WMD down there, he clearly had had WMD. He clearly had had the beginnings of a nuclear program,” Thompson told an audience of about 60 at a Newton cafe.
Thompson later said he was referring Saddam’s attack on Kurdish northern Iraq with banned weapons in the 1980s.
“He acknowledged, I think, in filings made by the United Nations that prior to the invasion — sometime prior to the invasion — that he had chemical and biological weapons,” Thompson said in a Des Moines Register interview. “I mean he used chemical weapons on the Kurds.”
Having WMDs in the 1980s is a given, since you know, we gave them the chemical and biological weapons. Saddam used them on the Kurds and no one batted an eye in the then-Reagan Administration. In 2003 he was out of gas (no pun intended) but Bush wanted blood anyway.
Fred endorsed that thinking yesterday. He still wants us in there. To extend our military beyond what it can take. Our forces are stretched too thin and you know, we could be doing so much better. I was reading about Burma last night, and I thought, if only we could help prevent this massacre unfolding right before our very eyes. Yet, there is no outrage from the Republican candidates. George Bush decried them at the UN last week, but he has the power to help stop the tragedy.
It is a shame for those dead monks there is no oil or even "WMDs" in Burma.
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