Reply #140: Bush's rationale for war was a series of McGuffins! [View All]

[robertpaulsen]

Thanks for resurrecting the Hitchcock lexicon, although in dimson's case it would have to be a post-McGuffin, since he was using the same McGuffins his FATHER used which were recycled old news the first time around! He used weapons of mass destruction against his own people! Never mind that we tried to shift blame to Iran, or that we kept funding him even after the truth came out.

Outing Plame to silence Wilson was definitely a bungled twofer, but again I have to go back to Joe Klein's article in Time and wonder, what was the significance of the "sting operation" that Plame was involved in regarding WMD trafficking?

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1101040705-658343,00.html

Then I remembered an article I saw on commondreams.org:

US Unloading WMDs in Iraq


TEHRAN (Mehr News Agency) -- Over the past few days, in the wake of the bombings in Karbala and the ideological disputes that delayed the signing of Iraq's interim constitution, there have been reports that U.S. forces have unloaded a large cargo of parts for constructing long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the southern ports of Iraq.

A reliable source from the Iraqi Governing Council, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Mehr News Agency that U.S. forces, with the help of British forces stationed in southern Iraq, had made extensive efforts to conceal their actions.

He added that the cargo was unloaded during the night as attention was still focused on the aftermath of the deadly bombings in Karbala and the signing of Iraq's interim constitution.

The source said that in order to avoid suspicion, ordinary cargo ships were used to download the cargo, which consisted of weapons produced in the 1980s and 1990s.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0313-08.htm

I think that even if the Bush misadministration was stupid enough to believe their own rhetoric in the buildup to war that there were "stockpiles" of WMD, the fact that Saddam did not use any to defend his country when the US invaded should have clued them in to the truth that there were no WMD. Is it possible that they tried to plant WMD before this year and that Plame was part of a "sting operation" to stop Cheney or Rummy from accomplishing it?

Just a theory.