Unintended Consequences of the Good Kind

Thanks again, Wikileaks!

Wired magazine’s contributing editor Noah Shachtman — a nonresident fellow at the liberal Brookings Institution — researched the 400,000 WikiLeaked documents released in October. Here’s what he found:

“By late 2003, even the Bush White House’s staunchest defenders were starting to give up on the idea that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But WikiLeaks’ newly-released Iraq war documents reveal that for years afterward, U.S. troops continued to find chemical weapons labs, encounter insurgent specialists in toxins and uncover weapons of mass destruction (emphasis added). … Chemical weapons, especially, did not vanish from the Iraqi battlefield. Remnants of Saddam’s toxic arsenal, largely destroyed after the Gulf War, remained. Jihadists, insurgents and foreign (possibly Iranian) agitators turned to these stockpiles during the Iraq conflict — and may have brewed up their own deadly agents.”

In 2008, our military shipped out of Iraq — on 37 flights in 3,500 barrels — what even The Associated Press called “the last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program”: 550 metric tons of the supposedly nonexistent yellowcake. The New York Sun editorialized:

“The uranium issue is not a trivial one, because Iraq, sitting on vast oil reserves, has no peaceful need for nuclear power. … To leave this nuclear material sitting around the Middle East in the hands of Saddam … would have been too big a risk.”

One of the common canards of the pro-surrender Left when talking about pre-war Iraq is that the sanctions program we had in place against Saddam Hussein had him contained. Of course, they’re correct. I mean, who doesn’t have five hundred fifty metric tons of yellowcake uranium laying around their Oil for Palaces-funded bunker?

Liberals stamped their feet for years over the supposed non-existence of Saddam’s WMDs. Barack Obama’s foreign policy has been based around the idea that since we got erroneous and/or politically-motivated intel in Iraq, we must wring our hands and beg forgiveness for being mean and big and smelly and doo-doo heads and not nice.

But what if Bush was right? What if there were WMD’s? What if these weapons constituted a threat to American lives and interests? If that was the case, the last half decade of left-wing foreign policy prescriptions (or more accurately, bleats) would be wrong.

So muchas gracias, Julian Asshat. Thanks for bolstering the case for the Iraq War. For a rapist anti-American prick who’s a chromosome away from being one of the creepy Eurodouche extras in the Hostel movies, you’re pretty cool.

Hey conservatives, are we sure Wikileaks-Boy isn’t a double-agent for our side?