Friday, September 17, 2004
The way it is
From the Times this morning, "Iraq Study Finds Desire for Arms, but Not Capacity":
A new report on Iraq's illicit weapons program is expected to conclude that Saddam Hussein's government had a clear intent to produce nuclear, chemical and biological weapons if United Nations sanctions were lifted, government officials said Thursday. But, like earlier reports, it finds no evidence that Iraq had begun any large-scale program for weapons production by the time of the American invasion last year, the officials said. ...From What Is To Be Done? (1863), by Nikolai Chernyschevsky:
Mr. Bush, who warned before the war that Iraq's illicit weapons posed an urgent threat to the United States, now generally describes Iraq as having been a "gathering threat," a phrase he has used at least 11 times since Aug. 12. In a Sept. 9 campaign speech, Mr. Bush told voters in Ohio: "Remember, Saddam Hussein had the capability of making weapons; he could have passed that capability on to the enemy."
Isn't that always the way it is: if a person's inclined to look for something, he finds it wherever he looks. Even if there is no trace of it, he still finds clear evidence. Even if there's not even a shadow, still he sees not only a shadow of what he's looking for but everything he's looking for.
Improvised @ 12:19 PM 
