If Bush Lied about WMD's, It’s The Biggest Conspiracy Ever

Dana, at his blog appropriately named Common Sense Political Thought, points out that for President Bush to have lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, it would have required the largest international conspiracy ever. Not only would all the members of his administration, the leadership of the CIA and Defense Department, have to had risked their honor and careers knowing they would be found out within months of entering Iraq, but the leaders and intelligence services of Britain, France, Germany, and Russia, and other countries, would have had to have similarly conspired. Further, Bush would have had to been quite stupid, being able to run in 2004 off his victory in Afghanistan, to engage himself in a deception that would have been revealed before the election.

Instead, as Vice-President Cheney said at the American Enterprise Institute:

“All of us understood…that for more than a decade, the U.N. Security Council had demanded that Saddam Hussein make a full accounting of his weapons programs. The burden of proof was entirely on the dictator of Iraq – not on the U.N. or the United states or anyone else. And he repeatedly refused to comply throughout the course of the decade.” Indeed, the massive international lie was Saddam’s that he had WMD’s, to deter what he perceived as a timid West.

The big lie is actually being perpetrated by the Democrat Party and its leadership. As a mainstream press ally, Eleanor Clift in Newsweek, wrote this week:

“Democrats gave Murtha a standing ovation behind closed doors, but most kept their distance in public. ‘It’s a trap,’ explained a Democratic strategist. ‘If the party comes out for a unilateral six-month withdrawal, that would become the issue for ’06, and they [Republicans] would kill us again.”

The Democrats’ big lie is twofold, that Bush lied, and that they have a shred of integrity.

Some propose that another vote be held in the House, and in the Senate, using Rep. Murtha’s words, and that Democrats’ willingness to engage in spineless backalley slander spread by a willing media be so exposed time and time again for what it is. Such repeated public pillorying might be fun, but I believe most Americans of any sense already got the point, and it would distract from the Congress getting on with its other important work, hopefully, to quickly confirm a full Supreme Court and to cut pork from the budget that would provide added public confidence that they have a government that governs responsibly.

Some suggest that the Democrats want to garner some of the credit for Iraq reaching the turning point where U.S. troop levels may be reduced by 20% or so during the next six-months. Again, only those already blind to or convinced by the Democrats’ perfidy and puerility would be so swayed.

Only those with an utter disregard and disrespect for the innate wisdom of the American people would expect otherwise. If that’s what the Democrats think, the wool can be pulled over most Americans’ eyes, they will be enabled in that fantasy by media allies, once again to be disabused of the notion at the ballot box.