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Limbaugh Logic: Saying WMD's Exist = Existence of WMD's

Limbaugh's June 16th essay certainly highlights some shocking atrocities from Iraq. He prominently displays graphic torture and disfigurement photos, apparently to marginalize the Abu Ghraib prison photos. Classic fallacy in logical argumentation: two wrongs make a right, or in layman's terms, "How can humiliation, abuse, and accidental deaths be wrong, when amputation and torture is so much worse?"


Here's a cut-and-pasted example of how Limbaugh supports his statements:

"You know, they're finding weapons of mass destruction all over the Middle East now. (story | story | story | story) They're finding remnants of Saddam's weapons."

At first glance, you might think that Limbaugh has located four unique and relevant sources that prove Saddam's missing WMD's are showing up throughout the Middle East. If you take the time to review the four stories that Limbaugh provides as back-up to his commentary, you find that none of them mention the discovery of any weapons of mass destruction. Three articles come from a single source: WorldNet Daily. Feel free to peruse the site and judge for yourself whether it truly represents "free press". One article is over three years old, which should make any reader doubt its validity in supporting the discovery of weapons "now". The remaining story is erroneously linked to the "breaking news" page of a different website, and no longer displays a story dealing with WMD's, but probably intends to link to this article. As a whole, the articles simply state that intelligence sources have reported that Iraq WMD's were shipped to Syria and other Middle Eastern countries. No actual stockpile of usable WMD's has been found in Iraq, nor has another Middle Eastern county acknowledged receiving them.

Point Number One is, of course, Limbaugh backs up his statements with the same level of "intelligence" and innuendo that got us into the Iraq debacle. But point number two is, if we are going to believe that Saddam has distributed WMD's throughout the Middle East, why would we even suggest that our invasion of Iraq has been a valuable strike at terrorism? Wouldn't it make more sense to believe that the war took the Iraqi WMD's and scattered them to all manner of people who now have nothing to lose from their use?