The Blog of toussaint

It has been said that America, as a country, has A.D.D.  I have seen this up close when arguing with my friends who don't seem to be able to put recent events into historical context; or remember that their favorite politician said one thing a month ago and is now saying the exact opposite.(See Mitt Romney)  But let's try a little exercise to see if we can't knock some cobwebs loose.  I want you to put your thinking caps on and think back to the Monica Lewinsky Scandal.  Now, Iknow what your saying, "Oh, that's easy! Everybody remembers all the excruciating details of who kissed what and when.  Give us a harder one, dude!"  Well, you might have to put your fingers up to your temples and squeeze really hard for this one but do you remember that during that scandal that we went to war with Iraq?  All the talking heads back then were alleging that Clinton was "wagging the dog", going to war to distract us from his impeachment. 

"OK, Toussaint, I remember, so why do you ask?"  Thanks for asking.  I'd like to connect some dots here because I am so @#$! tired of everyone saying that they can not figure out where the WMDs went.  Well, I know where they went, and I will walk you through it.  Back then, Saddam threw out the inspectors, thinking that Clinton would be too distracted by his own problems to do anything about it.  That was one of his many mistakes in judgment that he made in dealing with US presidents.  Have bombs, will travel: that is our motto no matter what is going on in our domestic affairs.  Clinton's CIA had the same list of suspect sites that Bush inherited when he took office.  But what he did not realize was that they had been taken out multiple times.  I remember at the time that the generals on CNN were saying that Clinton had ordered some of these sites bombed up to 10 times.  The consensus was that he was just trying to prolong the bombing campaign so as to distract us from "the dress".  What our Air force was actually doing was making sure that if we could not  inspect these, nothing in them would be left standing.  The Neo-Cons believed that Saddam was reconstituting his arsenal during the years in between '99 and the start of the current war, even though they had no proof of this.  But we all know proof never stopped this White House.  So, that brings us to when the inspectors went back into Iraq and could not find anything. Why?  Because even though Saddam was skimming off the oil for food program, he still did not have enough cash to restart his programs from scratch.  And please, don't try to hand me that junk about him trucking all his WMDs out of the country.  Let us not forget that we were preparing for war and I'm sure we had all of our spy satellites were trained on Iraq.  Any convoy would have been picked up on google earth, not to mention the satellites we have that are so sophisticated they are classified.  I've been told that they can read a newspaper from space, so finding those trucks would not have been hard.  We also had a navel blockade against Iraq, and a no fly zone.  Please!!!  While it is true that Clinton failed to get Bin Laden even though he knew the threat he posed,  give some credit were it is due.  The next time someone asked what happened to the WMDs, tell them "Bless your heart, you must have A.D.D."