Still no sign of any....

weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Apparently those 18-wheelers the Admin was hyping as "mobile biowarfare labs" have curious unhygienic canvass sides to them.
But the hunt goes on and on and on... the matter is looking acutely embarrassing for all concerned.
Especially Dick Cheney who snarled this into the microphones at a V.F.W. convention last summer: "Simply stated, there's no doubt that [Iraqi President] Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction."


Gosh but we don't seem to hear such truculent sentiments these days do we? No the President is reduced to bleating that Iraq had a "weapons of mass destruction program". Which is different than actually having WMD of the forbidden type.
It's beginning to look like some one hundred and sixty soldiers of this republic perished to enforce U.N. sanctions and mandates that had the compliance of Iraq.
Either that or they all died to give George Bush an excuse to fly out to the deck of an Aircraft Carrier like a grinning Mongoloid and collect the servile praise of the Washington Press Corpse.

One note...has there ever been a President in recent memory with such a ravenous appetite for the approval and abject flattery of the punditariat?
That humorless executioner's grin the President affected on the flight deck of the Abraham Lincoln was born of the sure knowledge that everyone from Chris Matthews to Don Imus would be loving this the next day.
And so they did raving on and on like twelve year old boys who just snuck into "True Lies" or something.
Now to some people who project vast power and malevolence onto Bush Jr. this is a signifier of a imperial personality at full flood.
For me though, it implies a certain repulsive neediness...."love me cuz I'm strong" is always a tip off that someone is riddled with insecurities.