Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq (Glenn Greenwald)

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Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq

(updated below - updated again)

Melanie Phillips is a British neoconservative who has devoted herself to warning England that Muslims are taking over and destroying its culture. Her book, oh-so-cleverly titled Londonistan, warns of "the collapse of traditional British identity and accommodation of a particularly virulent form of multiculturalism."

She has described James Baker and Jimmy Carter as "the kept creatures of the Arab world" who "are intent on smoothing the path to Israel's destruction." She thinks global warming is a "con-trick" because everything is "well within the normal cyclical fluctuations in temperature from century to century." And on and on and on. Needless to say, she is a deeply admired figure in the world of Fox News and right-wing blogs.

But all of that is rendered moderate, restrained, sober and even sane by a new article she wrote for the British magazine, The Spectator (headline: I Found Saddam's WMD Bunkers), which claims that: (a) WMDs really were found in Iraq after the invasion, (b) they were located in vast underground bunkers (c) which contained "nuclear, chemical and biological materials", but (d) the U.S., through negligence, failed to secure those sites and, as a result, (e) the WMDs were stolen by The Terrorists and/or Syrian agents, who now have them and are actively plotting (along with China, Russia and North Korea) to use them against the West, but --

(f) because the Bush administration is so embarrassed by their failure to prevent the theft of all these dastardly weapons, and because Democrats are embarrassed by this discovery because it proves that Saddam really did have WMDs all along, they have all jointly created a vast conspiracy where they conceal the discovery of WMDs in order to cover up for their negligence.

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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/21/wmd_conspiracy/index.html

[rodeodance]

1. given my cynicism about this WH---it almost seems plausible.

[jobycom]

2. That's a damn good basis for a novel. What's Ken Follet up to these days?

[ninkasi]

3. These people are insane

They really have lost all touch with reality. They will never, in a million years, admit that they were wrong then, and wrong now. I sometimes wonder how they come up with their fantasies, and wonder even more how any rational, intelligent person could believe them.

[BeFree]

4. No WMD

But the stockpiles of ordinary bomb making material were left unguarded.

Its where some of the IEDs come from.