Weapons of Mass Destruction

One of my coworkers (the one with a life-size cardboard stand-up of Mr. Bush in his office) e-mailed to everyone in the department one of the latest jokes about Bush's fruitless search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. "This is hilarious," he commented, demonstrating that he's not just a humorless kneejerk partisan.

But he continued, "Of course we already found many stockpiles of WMD in Iraq so it's a mute [sic] point, but it's very funny nonetheless." I overheard him later elaborating on this topic to another coworker. Apparently they've found huge stockpiles of uranium, pesticides stored next to missiles, and all sorts of other proof that Saddam was an imminent threat to the world. But the government can't talk about any of it. For national security reasons. Gosh!

I didn't interrupt to ask how he'd come to know about this, but I suspect it was very credible news source like Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh, or one of the current crop of right-wing talk show hosts. Or maybe some web site somewhere. Just another example of how eager people can be to believe anything they want to believe.