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May 12, 2003

War

No WMD, eh? What a surprise.

Via the road to surfdom: Frustrated, U.S. Arms Team to Leave Iraq. The 75th Exploitation Task Force is giving up its attempts to find those "weapons of mass destruction" that "justified" our invasion of Iraq. They have found nothing.

What, you don't mean that Bush could have been lying to us, do you?

Emma at Notes on the Atrocities also mentions this story. She goes a bit further, though, in saying,

What's really fascinating--or revealing is that in modern America, this ain't news. To tie it in to the whole election-strategy thing, it's a perfect example of how there's no accountability left in American politics. Everything is defined by an increasingly short half-life of news cycles. The President can lie to the public, invade a country on the basis of the lie, and when the lie is exposed...nothing.

As she says, the Democrats fail to include this in their Presidential campaign strategy at their peril. I personally feel that the Democrats, all of them, should be pounding on this issue at every opportunity, without fail.

It disgusts me that the news media are pretty much ignoring the story. Right this minute on the CNN website main page, there's a big article on the "Dr. Germ" arrest and not one mention at all of the failure of the search for "weapons of mass destruction." Not one.

Posted by Frank at May 12, 2003 10:42 AM

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The problem with the democrats using this as a strategy is that it's too easy (empircally proven) to convince the public about the proven existence of WMD in Iraq regardless of factual and evidentiary support. The repeated claim that Iraq had them but dumped them immediately before American troops advanced on Baghdad, the bioweapon labs that 'could' have produced them quickly, etc. That and there is always the small chance that they could actually be found and/or planted. In either situation, tethering the Democratic opposition to the reality of the lack of weapons becomes a problem - lose the PR battle and you lose the political war. It's a lose-lose situation, right up until we're down to two candidates duking it out, and then it might be useful to play it. Of course, that will depend on who sits at the top of Dem's ticket... but that's another issue. Just some thoughts.

Nice site btw, saw it through the trackback at Road to Surfdom.

Posted by: kenrufo at May 12, 2003 3:12 PM