Iraq has chemical and biological weapons arsenals, plus an advanced nuclear weapons program and is likely to use these WMD to stage an attack on the American homeland using al-Qaeda proxies!
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April Fools!
01 Apr 2008 12:18 pm
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I've heard that joke before...and its getting REALLY old. Just like when you hear someone say, "Don't go there..." or "Too Much Information..." I usually have to wrestle the gun from my mouth when I hear the above "witty" proclamations.
Ha ha, you got me!
You meant Iran, I think, Mr. Boot.
Tim,
Next time don't wrestle so hard.
Weapons of Mass Destruction ... ! Only a complete fool would believe such a crock of ...
Oh ...
Wait ...
(sigh)
Never mind.
Iraq has chemical and biological weapons arsenals
Well, not any more.
4000 Americans have died and you're making jokes? Why?
I used to read this blog regularly but now I'm boycotting Matt and everyone else at The Atlantic!
Heck, I'll even boycott Matt's roommate's blogs!
in unrelated news, rumor is that Iran has a Weapons of Mass Destruction Related Activities Program.
I see you didn't want Megan hogging all the "flippancy about a war I endorsed and was hugely wrong about" light!
BRAVO! Your actions in no way contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands. Laugh away!
Maybe instead of buying a big screen TV with his book advance, Matt should have donated the money to a charity for soldiers wounded in Iraq.
That's about as funny as Mr. Bush's looking for WMD under the table at some dinner a few years ago. A lot of people are dead, and they won't magically be back to life on April 2 when the joking's over.
Who needs al-Qaeda proxies when you have some balsa wood, a rubber band, and a propeller?
Hahaha! You are such a witty and clever Lefty Jew, Matt!
Of course Saddam said in interrogations that his plan was to go full tilt on nuclear bombs and missiles as soon as Sanctions were dropped. Then 9/11 and Bush ruined his plans. He said that he had hoped to start up in 2002, mainly for the Iranian threat (Saddam was convinced the Persians were going for the Bomb) but also to intimidate Israel.
No War? Sanctions would have been dropped in 2002-2003 w/o Bush's effort, and we might not have learned of the AQ Kahn network, Libya might still have a nuke weapons program going, and Egypt, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia might be gearing up their own nuclear weapons programs...
April Fool THAT, asshole.
THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!
I don't know why I laugh at idiotic but I do.
Folks, I really don't think it's fair to charge me with having written an inadequate volume of serious anti-war commentary recently. Read this and this and this if you're humor-averse.
Folks, I really don't think it's fair to charge me with having written an inadequate volume of serious anti-war commentary recently. Read this and this and this if you're humor-averse.
Ignore 'em. As John Berryman said, "The world's a solemn place, with room for tennis."
Thanks to Chris Ford's informative post . . . The domino theory is alive and well. . . Who knows who might be gearing up nukes without Bush's "effort?" Remember when we cut and ran from Vietnam and all of Asia then went Commie?
Nice to know that McCain will keep us in Iraq (and the world nuke free) for 100 years - what a relief - no more worries about mushroom clouds!
But Chris, if you can't scare people anymore, why would anyone ever vote Republican?
Matt reads and replies to comments on his blog? Just an April 1 thing, right?
We're not humor averse, Matt. We're ASSHOLE averse.
You supported the senseless death of hundreds of thousands. That's not bullshit rhetoric but fact. You don't get to joke about it.
Joke about the holocaust or something. You're not implicit in that.
Oh, also, the joke wasn't clever, original, or funny the first time. Another way in which you follow in Megan's footsteps.
It says a lot about war supporters that so many of them consider widespread death and destruction fodder for comedy routines while stamping their feet about what's "fair" to point out.
Part of the original problem was that these "serious" people were so flippant and vapid. Nice to see they haven't learned anything.
Wisconsin Reader Thanks to Chris Ford's informative post . . . The domino theory is alive and well. .
The Saudis had communicated that they were interested in nukes if either Iran or Iraq developed the Bomb. Turkey has said that their planning - for now - is that they are protected by NATO's nuclear umbrella but developments could make them rethink having an independent nuclear deterrant like France developed... .
Who knows who might be gearing up nukes without Bush's "effort?"
Well, you could start with the NORKs lying to Clinton and going ahead with the Bomb and only being deterred by 6-Party talks.
Remember when we cut and ran from Vietnam and all of Asia then went Commie?
Not all of it, but enough. 2.5 million Cambodians, 60,000 Laotians, and 150,000 S Vietnamese butchered seems enough to make a case that the Domino theory was not debunked. Indeed, the Lefties that saw the massacres hastened to redefine the Domino Theory as an "all or nothing proposition", as disproved if ALL countries in Asia did not fall. Especially since the original Domino theory was that "several Asian countries could fall if S Vietnam is betrayed, millions could be massacred by the communists" - and that did happen.
Nice to know that McCain will keep us in Iraq (and the world nuke free) for 100 years - what a relief - no more worries about mushroom clouds!
McCain only said he hopes that we will be 100 years in Iraq with no casualties, same as we are in other countries in peaceful cooperation ranging from 200 years (Britain, Canada, 100 years in the Philippines, 60 years in Germany & Japan). Obama's taunt that McCain said 100 years of war is as honest as some of his enemies calling Obama a secret Muslim terrorist backer.
And we are rational to worry about mushroom clouds and wise to develop a missile defense against potential future NORK and Iranian nuclear missile developments, as a contingency. It is not rational to worry simply about a missile that can reach CONUS. SRBMs and MRBMs threaten American fleet, regional assets and allies - and we still have big worries about India-Pakistan and Chicom aggressive action against America if we side with Taiwan in a Chinese invasion in the next 5 years..
But Chris, if you can't scare people anymore, why would anyone ever vote Republican?
Taxes, people that hate a Nanny State regulating their jobs and future to death, hatred of Orwellian PC, people who dislike socialism. People that find liberals anti-West, anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-white rhetoric not to their tastes. People who see liberals and Democrats as weak and not to be trusted with defending America or it's allies. People who oppose the courts legislating matters, who are against abortion and affirmative action. People worried that the democrat-controlled public education system has left us uncompetitive. People who worry about crime resurging when criminal-rights loving liberals have power again.
Though sometimes it is good to let a Dinkins or Carter have power so voters memories get refreshed. Many Republicans want the Black Messiah to be elected for just that reason - to blot out Bush's ineptitude with 4 years of Obama flailing about and doing serious damage when he realizes he has to govern with more than pretty speeches.
Damn, chris, I'm convinced. The Iraq war is the only thing that's preventing nuclear holocaust. I'm so convinced, in fact, I hope we can rewrite the constitution so that Bush can get elected for a fourth time!
Heckavua job, fordie!
No nukes! War is good!
Iraq developed wmd's and used them to kill tens of thousands of people. Then they comprehensively violated the ceasefire and other Chapter VII Resolutions that required them to transparently and pro-actively demonstrate that they had disarmed.
Great joke material, Matt.
Dear those who are angry with MY in this thread,
You can be understandably angry at him for having briefly supported the war, but your emphasis on this post in particular seems at least a bit misplaced. Isn’t this a quite bitter anti-war joke? As I read it, the lightness of tone actually serves to highlight ironically the blitheness with which hawks elide examination of their former war rationales. The joke juxtaposes alarmist rhetoric used to argue for invasion with the miniscule internecine dynamics that comprise the stakes upon which hawks today are forced to justify continuing US engagement; while they dress their support for continuing war up in rhetoric almost as lofty as it ever was, the accomplishment of those goals is now embarrassingly tied to absurdly small and dubious tactical plans that change frequently, as though no one sees the larger patterns of continuing death and dishonesty associated with their own policy. MY is underscoring that contrast by reminding readers of its original manifestation, which is worth doing, since Senator McCain is quite a popular guy at the moment, with the press and with the public, not least for his pro-war rhetoric, which is often portrayed as brave and ten kinds of wonderful.
No, a real April's Fool joke would to claim that Yglesias' exceedingly boring book made it to the bestseller list!
Ringo,
How is your own book doing?
In other news, it was revealed today that Summer Glau of the "Terminator" TV show actually IS a robot.
Copies of her will be made available to consumers at www.mysexdoll.com, for the low price of $911.00.
According to reports, the first production run has already sold out. Orders will be queued for the second production run.
I think the real April Fool is Fnord. When he walks in and finds his golf buddy doing his wife and sister at the same time. How's that working out for you, Chrissie? Sending you back to Betty Ford?
I think the real April Fool is Fnord. When he walks in and finds his golf buddy doing his wife and sister at the same time. How's that working out for you, Chrissie? Sending you back to Betty Ford?
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Heads in the Sand
Good joke, I don't know where you get your material...
Posted by Andrew | April 1, 2008 12:27 PM