Andrew “Dipshit” Richardson: ignorant and hilarious

The ever-entertaining Andrew “Gribbit the Dipshit” Richardson, in a recent post, claims that liberals are engaged in a “contradiction”:

So now the left wants to dictate to Iraq that they use their oil revenues to rebuild their nation.

Poor ignorant Dipshit is apparently unaware that this is exactly what BushCo promised us:

PAUL WOLFOWITZ: “And on a rough recollection, the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years We’re dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.”[House Appropriations Committee, 3/27/03]

But when someone other than a Bushie suggests this, it is somehow wrongheaded. Hmmmm.

And, of course, he drags out the long-discredited myth that we invaded Iraq “to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of radical Islamic Terrorists”. We know now that this is not the case. The Bush administration knew that the evidence for the supposed Iraqi nuclear program was worthless before the invasion began:

While the October 2002 NIE did state that Iraq was “vigorously trying to procure uranium” from Africa, The Washington Post reported on April 9 that then-director of central intelligence George J. Tenet “interceded to keep the claim out of a speech Bush gave in Cincinnati on Oct. 7, 2002.” The Post further reported that in January 2003, the National Intelligence Council (NIC) drafted an “unequivocal” memo debunking the claim. The Post reported that according to ”[f]our U.S. officials with firsthand knowledge,” the White House received the memo “as Bush and his highest-ranking advisers made the uranium story a centerpiece of their case for … war”…

And let us not forget that Bush had made the decision to attack Iraq regardless of any “evidence”:

At their meeting, Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair candidly expressed their doubts that chemical, biological or nuclear weapons would be found in Iraq in the coming weeks, the memo said. The president spoke as if an invasion was unavoidable. The two leaders discussed a timetable for the war, details of the military campaign and plans for the aftermath of the war.

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At several points during the meeting between Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair, there was palpable tension over finding a legitimate legal trigger for going to war that would be acceptable to other nations, the memo said. The prime minister was quoted as saying it was essential for both countries to lobby for a second United Nations resolution against Iraq, because it would serve as “an insurance policy against the unexpected.”

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Mr. Bush agreed that the two countries should attempt to get a second resolution, but he added that time was running out. “The U.S. would put its full weight behind efforts to get another resolution and would twist arms and even threaten,” Mr. Bush was paraphrased in the memo as saying.

The document added, “But he had to say that if we ultimately failed, military action would follow anyway.”

There is little more pathetic than a blowhard wingnut whose ignorance is self-inflicted. But “pathetic” is the one word that best describes Andrew Richardson and his ilk.