No WMD in Iraq

[NHPolitico]

I thought this was interesting. I'm too tired to make an elaborate comment on this right now. But this doesn't surprise me at all....so...maybe that's why I have no  comment on this at this time.


Read this:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/01/08/sprj.nirq.wmd.report/index.html

I think this is an issue that's a boost for Bush if we uncover something, but it's not a negative if we don't. Polls show that voters just don't care-- at least not enough to vote against Bush because of it.  They also think that Saddam was behind 9/11, so there's no accounting for the public's education on public policy I guess.

[NHPolitico]

I'd agree that the WMD seems to have simmered down considerably, and I doubt anything else is going to come out of it, unless it HELPS Bush in some way.

The issue of whether there was WMDs will be brought back up again for a short time during the next state of the union, when the media starts talking about the africa/uranium comment of last year's SOU, which will prompt discussion on WMDs, etc, and it'll go away again with the NH primary. Of course, the Democratic nominee will bring it up during the general election, but I don't think it'll have that much impact, unfortunatley.

Speaking of the SOU, I heard that Wes Clark will hold a town hall broadcast of the SOU speech. I don't know if he'll be giving a play-by-play or wait until the speech is over and then talk. It should be an interesting exercise.

[NHPolitico]

There was a report I saw on CNN today about the Danish army stumbling acorss about 120 mortar shells with possible chemical weapons inside of them. There was a statement about it from CentCom but nothing from the White House. This is big for Bush in reelection issues.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/10/sprj.irq.chemicals/index.html

Don't bring that up again. The Danes doing something helpful in Iraq is a ridiculous idea.

Now it's my turn to be obtuse.   Do you have something against the Danes?

They tried to conquer us for centuries and is the country we have fought the most wars with, lol. You might not know the background, but Denmark entered the war in Iraq by sending a submarine to the Gulf. Now, most Swedes were schocked to hear that the Danes actually HAD an army at all, not to mention a submarine. And then sending a submarine to a desert war, well it just looked funny. So it became a joke in Sweden, and if they actually accomplished something, it would ruin the joke.

I am not really being that serious, you know, I wish we had been on the same side as the Danes...

They gave us the danish. How can a food so good come from a country so bad? I rest my case. The Danes are our friends for life. So let it be written, so let it be done.