When I hear some of the revisionist spin being served out these days, I wonder if (1) I’ve been living a bad dream the past six years, or (2) some people are delusional enough to believe this kind of thing. Here’s what Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) said on Friday (via Think Progress):
Inhofe, speaking to the press before Cheney’s arrival, lambasted Democrats for Thursday’s Senate vote to begin withdrawal from Iraq by Oct. 1 and the press for “mischaracterizing” the reasons for U.S. involvement.
“The whole idea of weapons of mass destruction was never the issue, yet they keep trying to bring this up,” Inhofe said.
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Pressed for an explanation, Inhofe said weapons of mass destruction were “incidental” to the decision to invade Iraq.
“The media made that the issue because they knew Saddam Hussein had used weapons of mass destruction. So we knew that they were there. But that was incidental to the fact we were going after terrorist camps.”
Uh, right. So in the fall of 2002, when the Bush administration suggested that mushroom clouds might rise over American cities, it wasn’t really talking about the threat of WMDs, was it? That’s media spin. Bush, Rice, et a.l were actually offering a meteorological discussion on cloud formations. Get it straight, Democrats.