Chicago 2006
Well it's been a long time coming, but in two days I'm finally making it back up to Chicago. Can't think of a better place to spend St. Patrick's Day, well other than Ireland, of course.
According to a recent NYTimes article, it would appear Bush didn't lie about WMDs after all.
The Iraqi dictator was so secretive and kept information so compartmentalized that his top military leaders were stunned when he told them three months before the war that he had no weapons of mass destruction, and they were demoralized because they had counted on hidden stocks of poison gas or germ weapons for the nation's defense...When Secretary of State Colin L. Powell addressed the Security Council in February 2003, he offered evidence from photographs and intercepted communications that the Iraqis were rushing to sanitize suspected weapons sites. Mr. Hussein's efforts to remove any residue from old unconventional weapons programs were viewed by the Americans as efforts to hide the weapons. The very steps the Iraqi government was taking to reduce the prospect of war were used against it, increasing the odds of a military confrontation.
Even some Iraqi officials were impressed by Mr. Powell's presentation. Abd al-Tawab Mullah Huwaish, who oversaw Iraq's military industry, thought he knew all the government's secrets.
Just thought that was pretty interesting, and coming from the NYTimes at that.
Really looking forward to "Thank You For Smoking" coming out this weekend. Looks like it should be pretty good. You can view the trailer here.
