{"id":7804,"date":"2006-06-29T09:12:47","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T13:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7804"},"modified":"2006-06-29T09:12:47","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T13:12:47","slug":"crazy-curt-weldon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/crazy-curt-weldon\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Curt Weldon"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know I’m a day late on this one<\/a>, but it’s too funny not to share.<\/p>\n

A caravan of jeeps and heavy equipment crawls across the [tag]Iraq[\/tag]i desert, headed for a secret location on the banks of the Euphrates River.<\/p>\n

Their mission: to dig 25 feet down into the riverbed and unearth concrete bunkers filled with chemical weapons produced by [tag]Saddam Hussein[\/tag]’s regime and hidden before the outbreak of the Iraq war in 2003.<\/p>\n

And who’s that, dressed in a safari jacket and a pith helmet, supervising the dig? None other than our own U.S. Rep. [tag]Curt Weldon[\/tag] (R., Pa.), leading a secret mission to unearth the Holy Grail of the [tag]war[\/tag]: the weapons of mass destruction that have eluded every other U.S. search team since our troops invaded three years ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The whole story smacks of an Elmore Leonard novel.<\/p>\n

Dave Gaubatz, a retired Air Force special investigator, continues to insist<\/a> that Iraq not only had [tag]WMD[\/tag] immediately before the war, but that he knows almost exactly where they are. Weldon, perhaps Congress’ least sane member, not only believes Gaubatz, but plotted a secret mission — for himself — in which he’d personally<\/i> go to Iraq, shovel in hand, and find the elusive stockpiles of dangerous weapons. Seriously.<\/p>\n

Gaubatz said that Weldon latched onto the idea as a “personal political venture.” Weldon planned to go to Iraq, under the guise of visiting the troops, but would actually go to [tag]Nasiriyah[\/tag] to go weapons hunting. Naturally, Weldon, the vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, wouldn’t tell anyone in the U.S. military what he was up to, because they might spoil his fun.<\/p>\n

As Kevin put it<\/a>, Weldon planned to simply freelance the whole thing, and once successful, “he was going to call in the press and declare himself Weldon of Arabia, Discoverer of WMD.”<\/p>\n

Remember, Republicans, this guy is one of yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know I’m a day late on this one, but it’s too funny not to share. A caravan of jeeps and heavy equipment crawls across the [tag]Iraq[\/tag]i desert, headed for a secret location on the banks of the Euphrates River. Their mission: to dig 25 feet down into the riverbed and unearth concrete bunkers filled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}