More Democracy Hypocrisy, Part 4

The American government has closed one of its websites after a newspaper reported the site contained instructions on how to build a nuclear bomb.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said yesterday that it shut down a public Web site after complaints from U.N. weapons inspectors that the site included sensitive details about constructing nuclear and chemical weapons.

It is important to remember that the right wingnuts were the ones who INSISTED that these papers be posted on the web. They were sure that these papers, found in Iraq, would help them determine that Saddam had an active WMD program in 2003. THAT’S WHY THEY WERE POSTED ON THE WEB IN THE FIRST PLACE. So the looney tunes right wingnuts could interpret the papers themselves and prove Bush was right all along.

One of the first things they discovered was that Saddam had chemical and biological weapons detectors – and they thought that proved an active program. Apparently, the definition of the word “detectors” escaped them. (No one has ever said they were very bright.)

Now, with this revelation, they are again claiming that Saddam had an active WMD program – even though the papers date from before 1990 and tell us nothing about Saddam’s program that we didn’t already know! What they do tell people, in Arabic, is HOW to build such programs as Saddam had going back in 1990 - and that he DIDN’T have going in 2003.

And these hypocrites thing the New York Times is endangering national security (See Michell Matkin) when they publish information that everybody already knew – like the fact that Iraq is slipping into chaos. Or the fact that Bush is spying on domestic phone calls.

The right wingnuts go crazy when the New York Times publishes a leaked report from the military, yet they care NOT ONE WHIT about the leaking of an undercover CIA officer’s name – and thereby threaten lots of undercover CIA operatives around the world. Oh, and it just so happened that those operatives were working on uncovering nuclear WMD programs, and were not too popular with the Bush administration because they kept claiming that Saddam did not have a nuclear WMD program. And they were correct, and they will stay correct until the end of time.

That’s today’s examples of DEMOCRACY HYPOCRISY. (I have nine posts in total in this series, and I am starting to think I will NEVER run out of material!)