Dragons

Last night on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart likened Bush-Cheney's reaction to the final report of the Iraq weapons inspectors, (which found no WMDs, no WMD program, no WMD program since 1991, and a withering, rather than gathering threat) thusly: Some people look at a glass of water and say it's half-full. Some people look at the glass and say it's a dragon. That's it in a nutshell. Here's Cheney yesterday:

Vice President Dick Cheney asserted on Thursday that a finding by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq that Saddam Hussein's government produced no weapons of mass destruction after 1991 justifies rather than undermines President Bush's decision to go to war.

Huh? Here's Kerry's response:

Ridiculing the Bush administration's evolving rationale for war, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) shot back: "You don't make up or find reasons to go to war after the fact." [...] Kerry, in a campaign appearance in Colorado, said: "The president of the United States and the vice president of the United States may well be the last two people on the planet who won't face the truth about Iraq."

So, everyone should be asking Bush & Cheney: WHAT'S TODAY'S RATIONALE FOR GOING TO WAR IN IRAQ? It's gone from: 1. Gathering threat of attack 2. Ties to al Qaeda 3. Weapons of Mass Destruction 4. Hussein refuses to disarm himself of WMDs 5. Hussein has violated myriad Security Council Resolutions re: disarming of WMDs 6. We had to liberate Iraq from an evil dictator 7. The oil-for-food program was corrupt. Over 1,000 US servicemen and women have died. Been taken from their loved ones. Forever. And many more injured - maimed, in many cases. Because the oil for food program was corrupt? You've got to be frickin' kidding me.