licentious radio

Monday, March 3, 2003
[10:15:00 AM]

Some new cracks in the war effort.

Iraq, has always said the bio/chemical weapons were destroyed. We have a transcript from a defector -- Saddam's son-in-law -- saying the bio/chemical weapons were destroyed. Now the Iraqis have found the disposal locations, and are giving the UN weapons inspectors access and data.

In other words, Iraq is about to prove it doesn't have the huge quantities of bad stuff that are Bush's justification for invasion and regime change. It's likely to take *weeks* to analyze the amounts that were destroyed. At the least, the quantities that Iraq still has in useful form are a rounding-error of the former amounts. Certainly a vigorous inspection program will be the right answer.

This probably explains the new reason for invasion of Iraq: democracy. *Nobody's* going to buy that. We'd have to conquer *dozens* of countries if democracy were a reason for bombing civilians. And *nobody* believes Bush gives a hoot about democracy, anyway. No more than 20 percent of US voters support unilateral invasion -- even when it's called "send troops to Iraq". Something like 94 percent of Turks oppose war in Iraq. No, democracy would put Bush right out of business.

Meanwhile, Bush needs Angola, Cameroon, and Guinea for UN resolution. He expects them to vote his way, because they'll lose all US aid if they don't. The problem is, they don't *get* much US aid. Oh, it's important, of course. But the dollar amounts are so small that *France* could take over.

Get that? We bully them right out of our sphere of influence, back into France's. Crash-and-burn-Busho. Count on Right-wing kooks in the Republican-owned media to accuse France of buying votes. Ha ha ha.