{"id":1839,"date":"2005-02-21T02:27:28","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T09:27:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-21T02:27:28","modified_gmt":"2005-02-21T09:27:28","slug":"breaking-wmds-found-in-speech-at-cpac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/21\/breaking-wmds-found-in-speech-at-cpac\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking! WMDs found in speech at CPAC!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Radley Balko<\/a>, one of the “credentialed bloggers” at CPAC (CPAC stands for Bush Cult<\/i>-now you know) writes in response to Yglesias<\/a> and Atrios<\/a> expressing “alarm” over a speech given by Rep. Chris Cox. Cox’s remarks seem to indicate that he suffers under the Fox Delusion <\/a>that “we” have found WMD in Iraq. Here’s the relevant paragraph in Balko’s transcript of Cox’s speech:<\/p>\n

We continue to discover biological and chemical weapons and the facilities to make them inside of Iraq, and even more about their intended use, including that a plan to distribute sarin, and the lethal poison ricin — in the United States and Europe — was actively being pursued as late as March 2003. The facility where the weapons were being made also housed a large inventory of perfume atomizers of various shapes and sizes to mimic the brands on store shelves in the United States. It doesn’t take a wild imagination to understand the chilling implications. It does take imagination to combat it. And that’s why we’re lucky have an administration that gets it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Radley says:<\/p>\n

Seems the first clause in the first sentence of the last paragraph is the doozy. It’s the first I’ve heard of the perfume atomizers too, though I could very well have simply missed those stories. Iraq’s not my beat, so I don’t have the time to read up as thoroughly as I’d like.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, Iraq is my beat and I haven’t heard the perfume atomizer story. Maybe it was on Fox or Talon News or someone on FreeRepublic made it up – I must admit to having skipped alot of those “news” sources. Any readers have a clue where Cox got the atomizer story?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Radley Balko, one of the “credentialed bloggers” at CPAC (CPAC stands for Bush Cult-now you know) writes in response to Yglesias and Atrios expressing “alarm” over a speech given by Rep. Chris Cox. Cox’s remarks seem to indicate that he suffers under the Fox Delusion that “we” have found WMD in Iraq. Here’s the relevant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}