Questions like how much is infinity are impossible to answer- likewise, many might think it is impossible to find the dumbest thing ever uttered by Atrios. I nominate this post:
The only evidence we need to know that the administration is simply in CYA mode is the fact they don’t seem very concerned about the “missing” WMD. If they really believed they existed, the hunt for them wouldn’t be motivated by a desire to justify the war, it would be motivated by the very legitimate desire to make sure the deadly weapons were not in the hands of evil-doers. Since the administration isn’t sounding the alarm along these lines, it’s obvious they’re unconcerned. They just want to find some scrap of something – a la the ridiculous mobile “labs” – to pacify the media and dupe the public.
markus
please take the time to explain this.
Barney Gumble
me too, you didn’t say why you thought it was the dumbest thing ever.
John Cole
Do you think no one in the administration cares if WMD are found? Do you think that there never were WMD? Go sentence by sentence and pick out the stupidity- it isn’t hard.
JKC
I’m sure the administration cares very deeply about where any possible WMD’s are located. If there aren’t any found, Bush’s next foreign adventure will be completely solo.
Tony Blair is the canary in the coal mine here. It will be interesting to see what happens to him if the “we went to war over WMD’s” meme unravels. (Remember, we Yanks may be able to change casus belli in ten seconds flat, but Labor in Britain backed their PM because they believed that Iraq had prohibited WMD’s.)
Ricky
No doubt, that notation will be upstaged sometime today.
And tomorrow.
And the next day.
And the next day.
David Perron
I think that’s far from the dumbest thing uttered by Atrios even over the space of a week. He’s demonstrated much more advanced idiocy than that.