ssssshhhh: WikiLeaks confirms WMD found in Iraq and George Bush saved Iraq civilian lives!

* George Bush saved lives in Iraq:
1. Net # (including enemy) less than would have died under Saddam. 2. Gross # killed (including enemy) less than people murdered in S. Africa.
3. Gross # killed (including enemy) is 20% of half-million children who died due to sanctions under Clinton, as Madeliene Albright infamously admitted.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/commen ts/wikileaks_nails_the_wild_lancet_scare/

* And lots of WMD were found after all: “WikiLeaks Show WMD Hunt Continued in Iraq – With Surprising Results”

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/10/wikileaks-show-wmd-hunt-continue d-in-iraq-with-surprising-results/

To be clear:

1. These aren’t the caches of wmd people thought existed, but they do disprove there were “no WMD in Iraq”. And you can’t store caches of chem wmd anyway, because they degrade rapidly – they must be stored as precursors, of which tons of caches were found. And all evidence gathered post-war shows that Saddam would have become a wmd threat – that he would have restarted programs in the near future, so it’s really here nor there whether he actually had caches of the stuff. So if you thought Saddam was a future wmd threat, you were correct.

2. None of this “proves” we should have invaded Iraq, especially if the reason not to is isolationist, for lack of a better word.

“Report gives stimulus package high marks”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/30/AR201009 3007382_pf.html

The massive economic stimulus package President Obama pushed through Congress last year is coming in on time and under budget – and with strikingly few claims of fraud or abuse – according to a White House report to be released Friday. Shocking!

(This headline must have replaced the earlier one: “Washington Post republishes White House press release, including cheap shots from Republicans drinking slurpees”

Let me translate:

1. We are nearly on schedule, already blowing 70% of the $787b with a tiny bit of evidence of recovery if you really, really stretch it (but no evidence of new jobs.)
2. With $212b, we temporarily propped up collapsing state budgets so they won’t collapse until next year or maybe the year after! 3. We even spent about 10% ($77b) on those promised “shovel-ready” projects. That’s enough that we don’t consider this program a bait and switch.
4. “Only” $12 billion of that (2% of total) has received
“complaints” as fraudulent. Those who wasted and stole the rest have not complained about it.
5. The White House’s economic model forecasted 3.5mm jobs would be saved. The CBO confirms that the model still says that 3.5mm jobs were saved.
6. Even Stan “the man” Soloway, representing government
contractors, thinks the program was great and that government contractors should get even more money.