The wisdom of Bill Frist

Welcome to the latest politician to jump on the "Weapons of Mass Destruction? Oh, no, they were never that big of a deal..." bandwagon - Senator Dr. Bill Frist!

The Republican leader in the Senate said that Iraq (news - web sites)'s weapons of mass destruction was not the main justification for the US-led invasion of Iraq.

"I'm not sure that's the major reason we went to war," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told NBC television's Today Show.

For a choice selection of his comments made during the lead-up to the war, in which is proclaims strongly and frequently that Saddams WMD are such a threat that we must go after him now, check out Billmon, who has put together another of his wonderful quote compendiums from someone trying to duck as their own words come back to bite them in the bum.

And Monster Limo notes that the same article quotes Frist's most ...unique... explaination as to why we can't find the WMD's everyone knew Saddam had.

Frist added that he was not surprised that weapons of mass destruction have not been found in Iraq.

"The weapons of mass destruction that we're talking about today are new. They're little viruses, they're bacteria, they're chemicals, things you can't see, you can't touch, you can't smell. So intelligence is tough," he said.

"The administration made decisions based on the very best intelligence that we have available today," Frist insisted.

Um, Bill? I think they usually try to keep those viruii and chemicals in some kind of container? Those might be a little easier to locate.

Posted by thorswitch at June 27, 2003 07:26 AM | TrackBack