"Weapons of Mass Destruction" or "WMDs"---remember those? The fact that they

[Atticus]

did nor exist---and never had---did not stop Republicans from obsessing about the desperate "search" for them and flooding every newscast for months with those terms. Millions of Americans were convinced that only Bush's bold "shock and awe" campaign had saved us from Saddam Hussein's "WMDs".

And, now, Republicans are flooding all forms of the news media with breathless accounts of their committees to investigate the ---wait for it---"weaponization" of the government "against the people". The fact that that hasn't happened does not seem to matter at all.

There is a technical term for this stale Republican enterprise: "fragrant crock of shit".

[GreenWave]

1. Just lock their criminal element up!

GOP have always run on hate, lies and simplistic propaganda.

[Walleye]

2. Hell, at least half of them were convinced Saddam was responsible for 9/11

[IHateRonDesantis1986]

11. Saddam and

Barack Obama. Remember when they kept equating his middle name with saddam hussein?

[Scrivener7]

3. But they will pound it, every one of them, twenty four seven for months, and in the end

40% of the people or more will believe it as gospel.

As they did with the WMDs. And as a much larger percentage believed that Iraq was responsible for 9/11.

[Blues Heron]

4. The Pukes have harmed this country and the world in so many ways

[gab13by13]

5. The insurrection is growing stronger.

This coverup committee was formed to protect the insurrectionists, from Trump on down.

I believe that Scott Perry is on the coverup committee, he is under investigation by the FBI so it's only fair that he investigate the FBI.

I mean Garland stated he would not be partisan.

[Johnny2X2X]

6. There are millions of Americans who think we found WMDs in Iraq

When there's no accountability, the truth never gets cemented in history. I personally know some Righties who are dead sure we found active mobile bio/chemo weapons labs in Iraq. It's what they saw on FOX and they've never been convinced otherwise.

We're in a post truth world. Everyone believes different things. Democracy cannot survive without a basic shared reality being agreed to.

[RandiFan1290]

7. Loyal lapdog media went right along

Including everyone's favorite MSNBC

[Torchlight]

8. GOP is once again pretending balloon trucks are chemical weapons.

Forcing the evidence to fit their conclusions, and pretending any request to see their assertions supported with evidence as little more than malice. Because they are not too bright, but make up for it with creative excuses.

[Voltaire2]

9. It wasn't just republicans.

The WMD delusion was bipartisan.

[eppur_se_muova]

10. Actually, the term is "projection". "Weaponization of the federal gov't" is exactly what TFG ...

... was trying to do, and temporarily succeeded in doing. R's like it enough to continue the effort, hence the new subcommittee, whose only purpose is to distract from their own efforts in this regard.