[SPORK] Bush says "oops," doesn't realize it?

[Jeff Bone]

  LIMA, Ohio, April 24 -- President Bush today raised the possibility 
that Saddam Hussein's government destroyed the prohibited chemical and 
biological weapons that were the justification for the U.S. invasion of 
Iraq.

The president made the suggestion at a celebratory event at the plant 
here that makes Abrams tanks, 900 of which have been used in the Iraq 
war. Addressing concerns about anarchy in Iraq and the absence so far 
of forbidden weapons, he urged patience on both counts while U.S. 
troops try to disarm and stabilize the country of 23 million.

"It's going to take time to find them," Bush said of Iraq's weapons of 
mass destruction. Speaking before hundreds of cheering workers, an 
enormous U.S. flag and five tanks with guns pointed skyward, he added: 
"But we know he had them. And whether he destroyed them, moved them or 
hid them, we're going to find out the truth."

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	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34859-2003Apr24.html

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Damnable idiot.  So maybe they destroyed these weapons.  Maybe.  So 
says POTUS-CINC --- finally, after the fact.  Well, wasn't that what 
they were *supposed* to do?  Wasn't that what we *wanted* them to do, 
what the inspections were supposed to confirm had we let them go on, 
what we *insisted* (apparently in total ignorance) that they had not 
done?

I wonder if Bush realizes just how stupid this makes him look, or just 
how incredible this makes America in general?  Doubt it.  Fuck, at this 
point he should continue to insist on the validity of our causus belli 
no matter what!  I hope Bush enjoyed his little paper tiger-destroying 
adventure, given everything it has and will cost us.  I would hate to 
see Bush vindicated, but I almost wish we'd find something just so that 
we could recover a tiny modicum of whuffie.

jb