Our "Intellectually Incurious" Press & WMD's

We mean "intellectually incurious" in the precise same way they mean it in reference to President Bush, i.e., as a passive-aggressive-pussy way of saying "stupid."

Larry Elder wants to know where the tons of chemical WMD's intended for the Jordan attack came from, and he asks former Justice Department prosecutor and Army intelligence officer John Loftus just that.

Elder: David Kay said, in an interim report, that there was a possibility that WMD components were shipped to Syria.

Loftus: A possibility? We had a Syrian journalist who defected to Paris in January. The guy is dying of cancer, and he said, "Look, my friends in Syrian intelligence told me exactly where the stuff is buried." He named three sites in Syria, and the Israelis have confirmed the three sites. They know where the stuff is, but the problem is that the United States can't just go around invading Arab countries. . . . We know from Israeli and defectors' intelligence that the son of the Syrian defense minister was paid 50 million bucks to bring the stuff across the border and bury it.

That's sort of interesting to us, because last year Mansoor Ijaz was telling a similar story, which we never heard from another source.

posted by Ace at 12:23 AM

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