Republican presidential debates

By Dr. Linda Seger, author
Jesus Rode a Donkey: Why the Republicans Don’t Have a Corner on Christ

[At the Republican debates on January 24, 2008, Mike Huckabee said that he believed that there probably had been WMDs, but we hadn’t been able to find them, much like some children don’t find an Easter Egg, but that doesn’t mean the egg isn’t there.]

“The job of my battalion was to keep our eyes open, looking for weapons of mass destruction. There must be over 100,000 of us by now in Iraq, and we were determined to find those WMDs which could have been hidden just about anywhere. Whenever we took the tank out, we would start rolling about 20 abreast of each other, across that vast desert. There were always a couple of guys on the side with metal detectors, figuring that maybe those dang things were hidden under the sand. I wasn’t sure that was a good idea, since the whole tank was pretty much made of metal, and figured that they’d come up with a false positive, but I guess we all had to do our part in one way or another. Usually I rode in the front of the tank, peering out with my binoculars, looking for something - I wasn’t sure what. A silo across the desert? A warehouse? Maybe the pointy front of a rocket sticking out of the sand? All of us were committed to finding those WMDs. After all, that’s why we were here, wasn’t it?