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Monday, June 06, 2005
Irony ain't dead
Irony ain't dead yet, but I can't figure it out if the bloggers over at Captain's Quarters are trying to kill it or save it:
No wonder the American media loves Amnesty International -- they use the same editorial thresholds for publication. Just like Newsweek, AI apparently feels that any rumor that matches the preconceived notion of its publisher merits reporting as fact to its readers.
So we've got a blog complaining that AI and the mainstream media report rumors that fit with their expectations. The same weblog has a long history of reporting rumors that fit with its expectations. Plus, those expectations just happen to dovetail perfectly with the Bush administration's use of rumors about WMD to fit its plan for war: "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
The media spin on WMD remains in full force. The truth is that without a full reckoning and complete access to the entire Southwest Asia area, no WMD search could possibly be complete. Nor does the evidence in the report support a conclusion that the WMD did not exist, as the above quote shows. Duelfer and his team did not stop because the WMD didn't exist; they stopped because they had run out of time, resources, and jurisdiction. Duelfer recommends further investigation, a clear indication that he believes the question remains open on WMD transfers to Syria, a recommendation that CNN and other media sources predictably leaves out of their reports.
May 17, 2004
Sarin Artillery Shell Discovered In Iraq
July 2, 2004
It looks like the death of the WMD justification has been somewhat exaggerated:
More evidence that the WMD we believed existed in Iraq still waits to be discovered, this time from the Poles patrolling in southern Iraq. The AP and the BBC report that the head of Polish military intelligence revealed that Polish troops outbid terrorists for rockets laden with chemical weapons:
November 17, 2004
Marines Find Sarin In Fallujah
Big Trunk at Power Line points readers to a slideshow on USA Today's website that reveals a disturbing find in the soon-to-be former terrorist stronghold in the Sunni Triangle. ...So here we have the WMD for which we sought, hidden in Fallujah either by foreign al-Qaeda terrorists or, more likely, remnants of the Saddam Hussein regime that knew where to get them.
