Yet Another 'Smoking Gun' The Media Are Ignoring

April 21, 2004

The hate-Bush contingency out there has made much ado about the issue of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Where are they? Why can't we find them? Was Bush lying just to get us into a war? Forget the fact that enough Sarin gas to kill thousands of people could be concealed in a woman's purse.

 

Speculation as to where those weapons are is varied. We know Saddam had them at one point. He used them on his own people. The fact that we happened to stumble upon several MiG fighter jets buried in the sand makes the point that WMDs could easily be anywhere in Iraq, if they're still in Iraq.

 

Reports just after and even during the Iraq War indicated those WMDs might very well have been moved to Syria. New information is surfacing that could, not only establish that link, but definitively conjoin Saddam's regime with al Qaeda. In an interview on talk radio, intelligence expert John Loftus commented on the poison gas smuggled from Syria into Jordan by al Qaeda earlier this month. He told radio host John Batchelor that lab tests were being conducted to see where those weapons originated. He noted that VX nerve gas, which the al Qaeda terrorists arrested in Jordan were thought to have, was only manufactured by Saddam Hussein.

 

Could this be the smoking gun? Let's hope so. I say that as a concerned American who wants to rip apart the terrorist network across the globe and prevent these monsters from striking again. Of course, this isn't good news for everyone. There are those who are keeping their fingers crossed that there is no link established between Saddam and al Qaeda. Why? Because it doesn't fit their political agenda.

 

You see, if Al Gore had been in power when 9/11 happened and Al Gore decided to go after Saddam Hussein and Al Gore had been successful in Iraq, all of these naysayers and obstructionists would be singing a different tune.

 

On a recent trip to North Carolina, I struck up a conversation with a doctor from Raleigh. It seems his son had graduated from Vanderbilt several years before and complained that Vanderbilt was too conservative. Yeah, too conservative ! I had to know more so I politely inquired as to how he had reached this conclusion. His demeanor suddenly changed. His face began to redden. The veins in his neck bulged as venom shot forth from his mouth about how this president we have is an idiot and is dangerous and is controlled by Dick Cheney and Halliburton and the war in Iraq is exactly like Vietnam and will be the ruination of this country. What that had to do with Vandy politics is beyond me but there it was.

 

I found myself trying to calm him down, not wanting to inject anything that might make him blow a gasket. He told me that his son had moved to Holland, fallen in love and was going to marry. He had decided to become a Dutch citizen. Papa seemed especially proud of that. He left me with some advice. “You have to read Al Franken's book,” he said. I asked him good-naturedly, “In all the lies and lying liars does he ever mention Bill Clinton or Al Gore?” With that, he ended the conversation and huffed off.