So scary, it's almost imminent
Over at the Washington Post, token right-wing nut Charles
Krauthammer joins in the Bush team's Iraq media blitz with a nice little spin on Kay's WMD report. At one point, he makes me feel all scary inside:
Kay's list is chilling. It includes a secret network of labs and safe houses within the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi foreign intelligence service; bioorganisms kept in scientists' homes, including a vial of live botulinum toxin; and my favorite, "new research on BW [biological weapons]-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever, and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin" -- all "not declared to the U.N."
There's no reason to rebut this thing point by point (though it's tempting, with all the leaps in logic). You can knock the whole column down with one word: imminent. In taking us to war, Bush argued that Iraq was an imminent threat. Anything less is a lie and a fraud.
Live botulinum toxin in a refrigerator poses no imminent threat. None of this stuff does. Give it up, Krauthammer.
