Swopie-Poo

Let’s do talk about integrity.

Yours.

Not that you’re a regular around here (Praise be to Allah on that score), but you have been around long enough to make your opinions regarding what we call the liberation of Iraq very clear.

You’ve been against it from the beginning. Your position has always been that the United States has never had any valid national security reason for destroying Saddam Hussein’s regime, nor have you ever granted any validity to the moral argument for removing an aggressive, brutal and oppressive totalitarian regime simply because it exists.

Given that as a backdrop, your “concern” for the supposed loss of 380(?) tons of high explosives seems somewhat, um, odd considering you felt no particular need for confronting Saddam Hussein at a time when every nation in the world assumed he possessed genuine weapons of mass destruction. What are we to make of this?

Well, given that I am often less than completely attuned to the Christian concepts of forebearance and tolerance, perhaps I could be the wrong person to answer this, but off-hand I’d say it’s odds on that you’re a lying sack of shit. Do you really think anyone here buys into the idea that you give a rat’s ass about 380 tons of high explosive being either missing, in the hands of al-Qaeda or in a munitions bunker in Syria?

Call me biased, but I’m guessing that what you really do give a rat’s ass about is John Kerry defeating George W. Bush on November 2. To the extent this story of missing ordinance hurts G.W. Bush, you are interested, to the extent it does not, you are not interested. I mean, it’s not like you’re really being slick about this. Those of us who have endured you fully understand the depth of your intellectual limitations. We also fully understand that one of the consequences of those limitations is that you really don’t understand just how badly your ‘arguments’ come across to those who are even modestly informed about the issues of the day.

In any event, were you a little bit brighter or a little less bitter, I would point out to you that the idea that committed Anti-Liberationistas such as yourself can now claim grand concerns over the dangers of a relatively small stockpile of conventional weaponry not being under the control of the U.S. military tends to strike those of us with working short-term memories to be as absurd as it is dishonest.

18 months ago those explosives (and WMD, for that matter) meant nothing to you. Nor did they have meaning 12 or 6 months ago. Nor were you at this site, or any other site, last week bemoaning the ever-present danger of unaccounted for ordinance in Iraq. No…what you were ‘worried’ about was Bush lying, Bush being AWOL, Bush being a fundamentalist fanatic and Bush introducing the draft. In other words, you were ‘worried’ to the extent and in the direction pointed to by your masters. Being without the tools needed for informed and independent thought, what else could you do?

There’s an integrity issue here, alright, but it centers around you and absolutely nobody else.