{"id":2842,"date":"2006-07-11T09:34:46","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T16:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/11\/no-quarter\/"},"modified":"2006-07-11T09:34:46","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T16:34:46","slug":"no-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/11\/no-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"No Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Jim Henley has the patience to still do this<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0is beyond me. I’m not going to waste my time<\/a> on the WMDers\u00c2\u00a0anymore, because they’re\u00c2\u00a0not arguing in good faith. For instance, in the comments beneath Jim’s post,\u00c2\u00a0some guy\u00c2\u00a0writes:<\/p>\n

Of course, anti-war folk \u00e2\u20ac\u201d if not Jim \u00e2\u20ac\u201d were sometimes saying that one should not invade Iraq because Saddam might use WMDs, that, er, ahem, did not exist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d sooner try to convert Osama bin Laden to Buddhism than\u00c2\u00a0“debate” this hack.\u00c2\u00a0Let’s see: Antiwar people didn’t think the war was justified to begin with, because “WMD” or not,\u00c2\u00a0Iraq posed no threat to the U.S.; they sniffed something mighty piscine in the WMD claims the administration made; they\u00c2\u00a0wondered aloud how anyone who believed said claims could be so\u00c2\u00a0gung-ho about hurling American teenagers at Baghdad.\u00c2\u00a0Oh, the contradictions!<\/p>\n

Another comment, by Jon Henke, is even more demonstrative of bad faith, if read closely (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n

For the record, I did cite numerous potentially exculpatory explanations like \u00e2\u20ac\u009dthe documents could be (1) fraudulent, (2) in reference to legal chemical\/biological programs (i.e., medical research, agricultural development<\/strong>, etc), (3) produced to deceive the bureaucracy and Saddam about the extent of operations.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I must ask Mr. Henke\u00c2\u00a0whether he noted\u00c2\u00a0such exculpatory possibilities prior<\/em> to the invasion, or if he, like the rest of his brethren, screamed “DUAL USE! DUAL USE!” about every aluminum tube and\u00c2\u00a0batch of vaccine in Mesopotamia. If, in a moment of charitable weakness, you think the WMDers are\/were merely misguided, remember “dual use,” the catchall lie behind this whole rotten enterprise.\u00c2\u00a0The war party\u00c2\u00a0denied\u00c2\u00a0the falsifiability\u00c2\u00a0of its\u00c2\u00a0WMD thesis by declaring all technology\u00c2\u00a0above\u00c2\u00a0the level of the wheel\u00c2\u00a0suspect. They consciously rigged\u00c2\u00a0Iraq’s wheel of fortune to always land on\u00c2\u00a0“Attack.”\u00c2\u00a0And for that, they\u00c2\u00a0deserve no presumption of\u00c2\u00a0honesty or, for that matter, innocence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How Jim Henley has the patience to still do this\u00c2\u00a0is beyond me. I’m not going to waste my time on the WMDers\u00c2\u00a0anymore, because they’re\u00c2\u00a0not arguing in good faith. For instance, in the comments beneath Jim’s post,\u00c2\u00a0some guy\u00c2\u00a0writes: Of course, anti-war folk \u00e2\u20ac\u201d if not Jim \u00e2\u20ac\u201d were sometimes saying that one should not invade Iraq […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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-2842","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\/2842","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}