Have you heard Blix's latest theory on where the WMD are? It's a doozy, let me tell you!
Blix, who spent three years searching for Iraqi chemical, biological and ballistic missiles as head of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, said Iraq might have tried to fool the United States into believing it had weapons of mass destruction over the years in order to deter attack."I mean, you can put up a sign on your door, 'Beware of the Dog,' without having a dog," he said from his home in Sweden.
This explanation makes sense...if you're insanely stupid. Or if you're counting on business as usual with the UN.
Think about it.
After the Gulf War, the UN said "We'll stop attacking you if you disarm, and prove to us that you have disarmed."
Iraq said, "OK, we'll disarm. Just stop hurting us."
Meanwhile Saddam hatches this secret plot.
"Here's what we'll do guys. We'll throw away all of our weapons, see, but we won't let the UN verify that we've thrown them all away. That way we'll be in compliance, but they won't know it, so they won't dare attack us. Besides, the UN is a bunch of old women anyway. They won't do anything, and if the Great Satan tries to stir up the pot, our partners in France and Germany will reign them in"
At this point, you have to imagine that somebody spoke up and said," But, and forgive me for questioning you, Most Revered and Feared Leader of Our People, if the Allies don't believe we have disarmed, and they come to force us to disarm, we will not be able to fight back, because we have disarmed!"
"Silence you dog! I tell you they have no will to fight. They will talk endlessly and do nothing! Ali, eliminate this infidel who dares question my brilliance!"
And so the plan was hatched. It might actually have worked; in fact it was working right up until bin Laden and his murderous scum pissed us off. That changed the rules of the game in mid hand, but Hussein was trapped in his bluff. He held when he should have folded.
So, it is conceivable that Hussein no longer had any weapons of mass destruction; he was just pretending he did. Does this mean that the US and its coalition shoudn't have moved on him? Well, let me ask you this. You're in a bad neighborhood, and a guy walk up behind you and sticks a gun in your back and demands your wallet. Do you give it to him, or do you assume it's just his finger and say "Hell No!" (Uncle, assume you're not carrying, or he's got the drop on you)?
Posted by Rich at September 17, 2003 2:24 PM | TrackBack