Great Moments In Shameless Hypocrisy

Do you remember when we invaded Iraq, on the off chance they might someday give WMD that didn't exist to groups they hated, which the groups might use on us? Remember when we issued veiled threats to use nuclear weapons against Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War, if they used chemical weapons against US troops?

So, just imagine if Iraq had actually INVADED us, launched missiles that hit our cities, and used chemical weapons against us. Then imagine if another country (probably those French jerks) had blandly asserted that, sure, they condemned Iraq, but the REAL problem was our attempts to overthrow the Iraqi government... and at the same time, they criticized our invocations of morality and religion.

Boy, then we'd really be mad! Bill O'Reilly would probably call for us to blow up the world, and, if possible, the solar system.

Fortunately, that never happened to us. It only happened to Iran, and as we know, they're not a real country. So in 1984 we were the ones blandly asserting this:

"While condemning Iraq's chemical weapons use... The United States finds the present Iranian regime's intransigent refusal to deviate from its avowed objective of eliminating the legitimate government of neighboring Iraq to be inconsistent with the accepted norms of behavior among nations and the moral and religious basis which it claims."

Note that earlier that year the Iraqi government had helpfully explained what it would do to "insects" like Aliakbar Afshari's brother:

"...the invaders should know that for every harmful insect there is an insecticide capable of annihilating it whatever the number and Iraq possesses this annihilation insecticide."

Huh. It's almost like our whole professed concern about WMD was a gigantic fraud. Thank god we know it was real, just like we know Santa Claus is real.