WMD Irony
Remember how "Bush lied, people died" became the rallying cry of the anti-war left? The boisterous calls of that maniac Al Gore still echo across the amber waves of fuel. "He lied to us! He played on our fears". Yet given the events of recent days, I have to wonder when we changed the definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).
Dallas Texas
Hosam Maher Husein Smadi (inset), a 19-year-old Jordanian man previously charged with plotting to blow up a Dallas office building, was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday for attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction (WMD), and bomb a public parking garage.
Denver Colorado
NEW YORK — Terrorism suspect Najibullah Zazi plotted for more than a year to detonate homemade bombs in the United States, had recently bought bomb-making supplies from beauty supply stores and was looking for "urgent" help in the past two weeks to make explosives, an indictment charged today.
Zazi, arrested in Denver last weekend on a count of lying to terrorism investigators, was charged in New York with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. He appeared in a Denver courtroom today on the lesser charge.
One man attempted to detonate a bomb in a parking garage, the other purchased bomb making supplies and was seeking help to make explosives. WMD? Perhaps. I will let the court decide that. But more interesting to me is what is not considered WMD by the very man who sits atop the very Justice Department that is pushing the case of WMD now.
Iraq
A senior Bush administration official told Fox News that the sarin gas shell is the second chemical weapon discovered recently.
Two weeks ago, U.S. military units discovered mustard gas that was used as part of an IED. Tests conducted by the Iraqi Survey Group — a U.S. organization searching for weapons of mass destruction — and others concluded the mustard gas was "stored improperly," which made the gas "ineffective."
They believe the mustard gas shell may have been one of 550 projectiles for which former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein failed to account when he made his weapons declaration shortly before Operation Iraqi Freedom began last year. Iraq also failed to then account for 450 aerial bombs with mustard gas. That, combined with the shells, totaled about 80 tons of unaccounted for mustard gas.
It also appears some top Pentagon officials were surprised by the sarin news; they thought the matter was classified, administration officials told Fox News.
An official at the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) headquarters in New York said the commission is surprised to hear news of the mustard gas.
"If that's the case, why didn't they announce it earlier?" the official asked.
The UNMOVIC official said the group needs to know more from the Bush administration before it's possible to determine if this is "old or new stuff. It is known that Iraq used sarin during the Iraq-Iran war, however.
Kimmitt said the shell belonged to a class of ordnance that Saddam's government said was destroyed before the 1991 Gulf war. Experts believe both the sarin and mustard gas weapons date back to that time.
Yes, you read that right. Saddam had both Sarin and Mustard gas and we know it yet President Obama insists there were no WMD in Iraq and it was hence wrong for us to go in there. Yet now that he is President, his Justice Department considers a bomb in a parking garage, or better yet, the mere attempt to make a bomb to be WMD? Don't get me wrong here. I say throw the book at these two guys. But what about Iraq? If it is necessary to take action against these two young men for having or attempting to get WMD, was the action against Saddam Hussein not also justified? I'm not asking for these guys to be set free, I'm just asking for a little consistency.
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