THERE'S NO SECOND HAND ON MY MICKEY MOUSE WATCH

Try this little experiment. Stand in front of any clock in your house. Check what time it is. Now, look away. Ok..........now look back. Did you see? The time is different now. Holy crap. Go check out the other clocks in your house. I'll wait............

Ok, come back, we have to finish the post now. What you just witnessed with your own greasy eyeballs was something we like to call "the passage of time." While you stand there congealing, time is passing all around you. We call the little intervals seconds, and when 30,758,400 seconds pass, we call that a year.

So, Brute just finished contaminating the mic, and he says, "Hey, Clinton said there were WMDs in Iraq, and Kerry did, and so did Hillary, and you never call them wrong." Damn, he's really got us there. I guess that'd be the end of the argument, except for one thing: the aformentioned "passage of time."

Let's try a quick and dirty tick-tock here, shall we? Gulf War I ends, circa 1991. Weapons inspections begin under Scott Ritter (who is smeared by wingnuts, but never challenged on any facts). Now, for the next 8 years, Ritter is able to destroy about 98% of Saddam's WMDs. Far more than were destroyed in the war itself. At the end of that time, (remember, conditions change with the passage of time) the inspection team is expelled by Saddam. Clinton responds by bombing the sites provided him by Ritter that may contain weapons. That's Desert Fox. (or Wag the Dog to wingnuts)

So now AFTER 1998, Saddam is in defience of the UN inspections. Here is where understanding "time" is crucial. Between 1998 and 2002 is when most of these apparently hypocritical statements from Kerry, Clinton and Hillary were made. It was after 1998 and before inspectors were allowed back in in 2002 that many foreign policy experts feared the unknown but real possibility that Saddam MIGHT reconstitute his WMD. And so they accurately addressed his POSSIBLE rearming.

Now, let's finish this off for you more advanced thinkers. Brute and archie, you can sit in the corner. Please don't eat the paste. Here again we observe the passage of time and the change in conditions after 2002. Once the inspectors went back in, between the war resolution in October of 2002 and March of 2003, Hans Blix ACCURATELY reported that no weapons could be found. (This was later verified by David Kay and Charles Duelfer) Bush CHOSE to invade, rather than allow the inspectors to finish (no more than 6-8 months).

So, a brief review:

1991-1998 - Inspectors IN
1998-2002 - Inspectors OUT
2002-2003 - Inspectors IN

Inspectors in, inspectors out, inspectors in, inspectors out, in, out, in, out...Ya know, Brutie, it's kinda like fucking, except this, unlike fucking, is something you might one day have a chance to do.*


*Not with a sheep.

JC