Iraq, WMD's, and never-ending hypocrites

We have been treated to a steady and often violently angry stream, from the media and from the left side of American politics, of the following: "Hussein had no WMD's; therefore Bush lied; deposing Hussein wasn't necessary; deposing Hussein wasn't a good thing."

For many of us able to think and recognize evil when it's blatantly obvious, that position has long been transparently ludicrous. It is constantly amazing that the Left in U.S. politics has a stunning blindness to genuine, proven evil. Let's recount a quick list of Hussein's evils: he used poison gas (those would be WMD's, which he had en masse in the 1980s) on his own people and on the Iranians during the Iran-Iraq war; he had stocks of poison gas that were verified after the first Iraq War after the U.S. kicked Hussein out of Kuwait; he invaded Kuwait; and he publicly, since the 1990s, said that he would provide the families of suicide bombers who "kill Americans" with $20,000 (a sizeable wealth to most in the Middle East). The last time I checked, paying people to commit suicide attacks on Americans... constitutes the support and blatant encouragement of terrorists. I'm utterly unclear how the American Left reconciles its statements that there "was no proof that Hussein backed terrorists" (and of course that Bush lied about that, too). No Proof? How about his own words? Paying people to commit suicide with bombs, if they kill Americans while they do it? If that isn't backing terrorists, what is?

And therein lay the greatest tragedy of the American Left: a persistent denial of reality. Confronted with this simple proof, Hussein's own words (see above), the Left simply ignores it and repeats its mantra, as though by saying over and over again that Hussein never did anything to support or encourage terrorists would somehow magically make it factually so.

Let's move beyond just Hussein's own words. General Georges Sada, Iraqi General under Hussein and one of Hussein's advisors in the 80s and 90s, has released a well-written and, more importantly, well- and heavily- documented book that should put an end to the Left's idiotic mantras. General Sada documents, complete with accompanying testimony of the pilots involved (for instance), how Hussein took advantage in 2002 of a natural disaster in Syria to -- very important point coming, read carefully -- move jets loaded with WMDs of all sorts out of Iraq and into Syria. How he used the natural disaster to send the planeloads of WMDs there under the guise of "humanitarian support" to the Syrian people. General Sada doesn't just say it's so (which is firsthand testimony, since he was part of that operation to move WMD's out of Iraq), he provides additional testimonies and the documentation so other people (like, say, reporters who are actually interested in the truth) can find all this out for themselves.

So let's look at this. Some of us have been arguing all along the very obvious proposition: Hussein was proven to have WMD stockpiles in the early and mid 1990s; he used earlier stockpiles against his own people and the Iranians; and he had plenty of time to figure out that it would suit his purposes to hide his stockpiles. Where might he do that? Hm. Rational human beings sit back and think and say, hm, how about Syria or Iran?

The Citizen was utterly unsurprised when the U.S. found no stockpiles in Iraq. Why would I be? It was transparently obvious that: by going over and over again to the U.N. we had given Hussein two things -- the notice that we were coming into Iraq, and the time to prepare for that eventuality. That far too much of the American Left can't put two plus two together and get four -- we gave Hussein time to move his stockpiles into sympathetic Syria or Iran; we told him ahead of time we were coming, by spending months and months stating so before the U.N.; therefore Hussein will move his stockpiles out and proclaim his "innocence", which will convince only the American Left and far too much of Europe.

So now we have additional proof to back up what most of us had already surmised. Proper journalism requires an in-depth examination of an article, if that article proves false. So let's see the mainstream media, which has banged the drum of the Left's mantras for years, now do the proper and honest thing and actually run stories pointing out how FALSE they were before, how their earlier positions were NOT ACCURATE, and what the facts actually are turning out to be.

Don't hold your breath, America. The mainstream press has little interest in going back over their years of falsehoods and assumptions, and the American Left will certainly continue to bury their collective heads and refuse to admit reality. I'm not sure which is the bigger tragedy, since by refusing to acknowledge proven reality, by refusing to admit facts when the facts contradict their assertions, the American Left just cedes the argument to the Republicans.

What we should be concerned about should be obvious to all: since Hussein moved stockpiles out of Iraq and into Syria, that means... hold your breath.. that Syria now has those stockpiles of chemical weapons and other WMDs. The Right has already expressed their concern about this, with the typical reaction from the media and the Left (Syria doesn't have anything, anything more than Iraq did, etc.).

One of these days, the Left will wake up and realise that the testimony of Georges Sada and others actually involved in the goings-on in Iraq at the time is far more valuable than the delusional rantings of the likes of Cindy Sheehan, Michael Moore, and their ilk. Until then, they'll continue to lose elections, as they've done in the past half-dozen election cycles (most notably, the 2002 midterm elections, where the Left lost hugely, when history almost universally has the party out of power gain seats). And they'll continue to rant and rave and deny reality. I just wish they wouldn't. The world deserves better.