Maybe DemoRATS know the plan

Here’s something interesting. All the way back in 1998, the early years of W’s presidency, the State Department published this little tid bit:

U.S. Government White Paper (State Department), Feb. 13, 1998: On the basis of the last seven years' experience, the world's experts conclude that enough production components and data remain hidden and enough expertise has been retained or developed to enable Iraq to resume development and production of WMD. They believe Iraq maintains a small force of Scud-type missiles, a small stockpile of chemical and biological munitions, and the capability to quickly resurrect biological and chemical weapons production. This conclusion is borne out by gaps and inconsistencies in Iraq's WMD declarations, Iraq's continued obstruction of UNSCOM inspections and monitoring activities, Saddam's efforts to increase the number of "sensitive" locations exempt from inspection, and Saddam's efforts to end inspections entirely. Collectively, the evidence strongly suggests that Baghdad has hidden remnants of its WMD programs and is making every effort to preserve them. (The Washington Times republished this today on its editorial page.)

So from this White Paper we can conclude that George Bush was lying about Iraq’s WMD program all the way back in 1998. What? The hell you say! Bush wasn’t even president? How can that be? DemoRATS and the MSM have led me to believe this Iraq war and the WMD were all a figment of W’s imagination. Now you tell me that Maddie Halfbright and William the Slick were of the same mind as the Evil George Bush on Iraq. How can that be? Well, if true, this would be enough to convince a thinking man that the DemoRATS and the MSM are smearing the president. Oops, I used thinking, DemoRATS and MSM in the same sentence. That has to violate some rule of grammar, but I didn’t get one those Gates grams. You know the green line that appears indicating that something is wrong with the structure of the sentence. Hmm. It must be an oversight by the programmer.

Rush Limbaugh offers this alternative theory on the DemoRATS call for withdrawal of US forces from Iraq. What if the RATS figured out that the troops are coming home in the spring of ’06? What if they know that the war has gone reasonably well and with the elections in December and the accelerated build up of Iraqi forces, plans have been laid all along to start a draw down of US troops in the spring? What to do? Such a draw down may give credit to the president who has steadfastly and correctly refused to buy into any timetable talk. You know the troops are coming home in the spring anyway. You know the president won’t announce any withdrawal schedules. So you, being ever the political opportunist, start demanding a pull out in the fall of ‘05 and take credit for the withdrawal when it occurs naturally in the spring. The Rats continual harping on the war is a two-for in that it is also distracting from a robust economy that is all but ignored by the MSM. That’s too low, even for DemoRATS? I wish that it were it true, but I don’t think so.