Reply #6: I feel your pain my brother

[thefool_wa]

A guy I work with (that I post about alot) heard about a book by a former high-ranking Christian Iraqi official who published a book about 2 years ago that claims all the WMDs were shipped out to syria prior to the invasion.

He totes this thing around like infallible scripture and uses it to try and quash me whenever I say there were no WMD's in Iraq and haven't been since the early 90s. My point to him is, if this book has the "real" story, why aren't the neo-cons singing it's praises high and low. Why is it he heard about it once a couple of months ago and no one else is talking about it? He, of course, has no answer.

To be honest, I have a hard time believing that a Christian made it into Saddam's cabinet of advisers. Even if I give the benefit of a doubt there, considering the recent reports that Iraq fabricated its OWN intelligence to try and convince the west they had WMDs that they did not (I have some doubts about this report as well) it seems very probable that this guy was being given bad information.

When the repugs I know start going off on the same old lies, I just let them talk then ask them how the sand tastes.