CO2 is the new WMD
Have you noticed how much the call for combating global warming crusade has in common with how we got into the Iraq war?
In both cases, there are “experts” who tell us that evidence justifying action is undeniable. They say, “The risk of doing nothing is too great for us to do nothing.” And as a fallback position they say, “Even if we’re wrong, we’ll still be doing some good in the world.”
Kind of makes me think man-made CO2 emissions will turn out to be the biggest case of nonexistent WMD since Saddam Hussein’s nukes. (Or maybe even bigger!) What do you think?
Can you identify the jar of Botulinum toxin in this pantry?
This is a comment from a reader on Camille Paglias opinion page today. Funny stuff. Of course it’s only true in the medias perception of the whole WMD debacle. There’s no question Sadaam Husein had them; heck, they’re probably still there. The problem was Bush’s underestimation of how difficult they would be to find. After all, when a mayonnaise jar full of enough biological agent to wipe out the city of Baltimore can be stored in a pantry in some Baghdad apartment… makes it pretty hard to find.
Anyway, the whole “Global Warming” thing… geesh. It won’t be long till they are clamoring about the impending “Second Ice Age” again like they were back in the 70’s. It would be interesting to see if Al Gore holds any stock in one of these Compact Flourescent lightbulb companies…
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BuddyO
(blog author) says:
Added on January 15th, 2009 at 8:30 amWell look at that… Michael Ramirez at IBD is featuring his Global Warming Cartoons today. Am I topical or what…?
It will probably change tomorrow (like the climate), so here’s a link to their
Global Warming Cartoons
love
says:
Added on January 17th, 2009 at 2:59 amPersonally i’d have thought if Saddam had any WMD’s left after he used all the ones Rumsfeld helped him get in the 80s, back when Saddam was the US’s big ally against Iran and the Ayatollah in the Iran/Iraq war, he’d have had no hesitation in using ‘em against the American invading forces – after all he was happy to use them against his own countrymen.
Maybe he forgot whose pantry he’d had them stored in and had no paperwork to remind him – Since the UN had been collecting it all for the past 15 years??
A WMD you can’t use against your worst enemy is no WMD at all.
And if Bush and his ‘New World Order’ phalanx of advisors were so sure there were deadly chemical engineering factories producing botulins in the desert why were they so keen on blowing up anything that could move to release it into the atmosphere where their troops were a few kilometres away on the ground? Or had no fears of the atmospheric fallout from bombed storage areas potentially wiping out millions of Iraqi citizens in Baghdad and other major cities??
Oh Riiigghht… they never thought about that – or cared!
Can you find me one expert’s opinion who thinks the ‘correct’ way of handling biochemical weapons is to fire missiles or drop bombs randomly into their general direction? Or blow out the electical supply so the containment regions and refridgeration fails?
Only from the Bush cabinet perhaps?
Sad – very sad.
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BuddyO
(blog author) says:
Added on January 17th, 2009 at 8:06 amHey Love!
Nice seeing you drop by.
The big problem with how Bush handled Iraq is that he ignored the example (advice?) of his father and Ronald Reagan. Since when does a ‘real’ conservative advocate nation building? … answer, NEVER…. but all that’s off topic.
I was just pointing out that I thought that was a cool parallel the commenter made with ‘Global Warming’ and WMDs. There’s way too many vested interests in having us believe the Earth is warming.
… Right now in Elkridge, MD it’s 0 degrees F… Al Gore must be in town giving a speech… he seems to have that effect.
Chris
says:
Added on January 19th, 2009 at 10:44 amI’m pretty sure, having read numerous first hand accounts of the difficulties the US military had to go through to protect themselves against potential gas attacks, that the leadership was convinced that the WMD threat was quite real. Perhaps Bush was given faulty information from the CIA – who knows? Should that have been enough incentive to invade Iraq? Well, if that were the only reason then we should be invading a few other counties as well. History will tell if this was a debacle or a great victory. Probably somewhere in between.
But Love, I think one aspect of your reasoning ignores the obvious. Hussein didn’t hesitate to use nerve gas on the Kurds because they didn’t have the Marines (or the US Army, Airforce and Navy) at their beck and call.
Sometimes I get the idea that you think Australia is somehow exempt from all this. Don’t you have a few blokes in the fray? If Bush is such a despot, why does Australia follow along? What is that word?..bollocks?
BuddyO
(blog author) says:
Added on January 19th, 2009 at 4:55 pmI think it’s quite possible that they had help (Syria) getting rid of the stuff just to make Bush look like a fool. Like I said WMDs are pretty easy to hide. If I remember correctly they did find one of those cafeteria wagons that had been converted into a lab, no actual chemical agents found though.