Despite the north suburban media outlets refusal to question anything he says even after it's proven incorrect, Mark Kirk has now twice falsely sold this district on his superior security clearance and in the know status on WMD dangers. First, he used it to assure constituents that he absolutely and personally knew there were WMD in Iraq, falsely justifying the invasion to gain cheap political points in his debate against Hank Perritt. Then, he sold us on his superior knowledge and ability to deal with a nuclear Iran, not only enriching uranium, but able to deliver a nuclear weapon with Shahab-3 ballistic missiles, to impress the AIPAC set and justify further arming everyone in the Middle East/Persian Gulf Regions. See also here where Kirk proclaims the Iranian nuclear and ballistic missile programs a mortal danger to Israel. See also here where Kirk seeks weapons for Israel to deal with the Shahab-3 ballistic missiles.
The problem with both sets of intelligence is that they were wrong. We know Iraq never had WMD, and the intelligence was not only wrong, but intentionally cherry picked to justify the outcome by folks who knew at the time it was wrong. Mark has never been asked to explain his 2002 debate comments unfairly berating Prof. Perritt for not knowing something that was not true to being with. Now, we are learning that the intelligence intended to prove Iran was working on Shahab-3 ballistic missiles to deliver nuclear warheads was also not only wrong, but again it appears that the evidence was forged. See here too.
I would expect someone with the clearance and understanding of military intelligence claimed by Mark Kirk would not be steering his district wrong again and again. Either he's not so much in the know or he is in the know and willing to spread false intelligence to make cheap political points regardless of the real consequences. The local papers up here refuse to call Kirk on anything, printing his press releases verbatim as if they were the Ten Commandments handed down from the heavens to Moses, but perhaps in his proposed statewide race for governor or senator, some downstate paper will do some real journalism and ask a question.
