Glenn Greenwald: Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq

[babylonsister]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/21/wmd_conspiracy/index.html

Glenn Greenwald
Saturday April 21, 2007 07:58 EST
Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq



Melanie Phillips is a British neoconservative who has devoted herself to warning England that Muslims are taking over and destroying its culture. Her book, oh-so-cleverly titled Londonistan, warns of "the collapse of traditional British identity and accommodation of a particularly virulent form of multiculturalism."

She has described James Baker and Jimmy Carter as "the kept creatures of the Arab world" who "are intent on smoothing the path to Israel's destruction." She thinks global warming is a "con-trick" because everything is "well within the normal cyclical fluctuations in temperature from century to century." And on and on and on. Needless to say, she is a deeply admired figure in the world of Fox News and right-wing blogs.

But all of that is rendered moderate, restrained, sober and even sane by a new article she wrote for the British magazine, The Spectator (headline: I Found Saddam's WMD Bunkers), which claims that: (a) WMDs really were found in Iraq after the invasion, (b) they were located in vast underground bunkers (c) which contained "nuclear, chemical and biological materials", but (d) the U.S., through negligence, failed to secure those sites and, as a result, (e) the WMDs were stolen by The Terrorists and/or Syrian agents, who now have them and are actively plotting (along with China, Russia and North Korea) to use them against the West, but --

(f) because the Bush administration is so embarrassed by their failure to prevent the theft of all these dastardly weapons, and because Democrats are embarrassed by this discovery because it proves that Saddam really did have WMDs all along, they have all jointly created a vast conspiracy where they conceal the discovery of WMDs in order to cover up for their negligence.

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[rurallib]

1. I gotta think if the terrists really had nukes

they'd drop one on old Mel there for figuring out the whole scheme.
Couple more glasses of Everclear for Mel, please?

[acmavm]

2. Whoa, what the hell drugs is she taking?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. and they call US tinfoil hat-wearing-conspiracy theorists!

:wow:


:rofl:

[illinoisprogressive]

4. Didn't she write Londontan? She is nuts.

[laststeamtrain]

5. Yeah, I posted this in Eds & Arts too. Following up on the source, David Gaubatz is interesting...

His organization is Saneworks.

"evil design of Islam (i.e., to destroy America and to create a world-wide Islamic Caliphate), and its convergence with liberalism (also bent on the destruction of America as America and the establishment of a world state)."-From the SaneWorks site.

Saneworks = Society of Americans for National Existence

http://www.saneworks.us/

Wacky.

[bklyncowgirl]

6. Maybe someone should introduce her to that Congressman who went to Iraq to search for WMD

Was that Duncan Hunter or some other nutjob.

[DBoon]

7. Does she believe the moon landing was faked too?

and I'd love to hear her opinions on the Kennedy assasination as well.

Next I'm sure she will be hawking some herbal remedy that cures cancer about which the medical establishment is supressing the truth.

[Blue_Tires]

8. sounds like one of the nuts fell off the LGF tree

wow...i seen people spew mental vomit from their asses, but her stuff is so bad, it's good...even she can't believe this---this HAS to be the latest in that dry, witty British satire....

[nealmhughes]

9. Why aren't the Jesuits in on the plot? Aren't they agents of the Illuninati?

I couter offer Phillips and declare that a group of tramps in a rail road yard were seen carrying off the WMD, and they are buried now under a grassy knoll awaiting the signal from the Jesuits/Illumniati/Knights Templar/CIA/MI5 to bring their nefarious schemes to fruit.
I also believe that the Reichstag is in danger of fire! Alert the Berlin police! Check Westminster Palace for Arab gunpowder in the cellars!