Silence for Unification?

Going out on a major limb, I am going to try to mix a principle I see currently in politics with discussions I've seen in theology as well. (I know, I know. Horrible idea to mix politics and religion. But understand, it's more a comparison of reactions than anything else.)

Can we just let go of this WMD thing?

Just read an interesting radio transcript on Radioblogger.com (HT: Justin Taylor) regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. Here are some quotes between Hugh Hewitt and Rick Santorum:

RS: What we announced was that after two and a half months of being aware of this document, we were able to get a copy of the document, and convince the intelligence community to give us a declassified version of the document. It is a very short synopsis, and I would argue incomplete synopsis, but nevertheless, it's vitally important, because what it does say, and I'll quote from it, "since 2003," so since the Iraq War, "coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain mustard or sarin nerve agent."

HH: Now the media thus far, I've seen it reported on Fox News, the website Freerepublic.com has got a number of threads running on it, but there is nothing about your announcement in the Washington Post or the New York Times as of three minutes ago. Are you surprised?

RS: Unfortunately not. When we called the press...I will admit, we had hoped to get this document released to us earlier in the day, but we did not get it released to us until 4:30. There was a brief on it until 5:15. We had a press conference at 5:30, which as you know, is not prime time to have press conferences. But since the document was now available, declassified and available to all members, and was faxed around to several other members' offices, we thought it was important to characterize and put this in context. So we hastily called a press conference, of which...normally, I would think if you're announcing the finding of weapons of mass destruction, you'd get more than four or five reporters, but that's all we could seem to drum up.

This appears to be that fax (again, HT: JT). Ultimately, this document and the interview with Hewitt seem to state three things:

1. They have found weapons with nerve gas in Iraq.

2. They believe there is more out there, that what they have found so far would have been very difficult to find with general inspections, and that terrorists would love to get their hands on any of these remaining munitions.

3. The mainstream media and Democrats do not seem to want to acknowledge this.

While I do not believe there has ever been a better television series ever written than "24" (yes, LOST people, I know your show exists, but "24" beats it in longevity...and don't be too confident that the writters of LOST won't botch the ending and therefore render the entire series poor...but I digress), it seems that a "24 scenario" is what most people required. They wanted us to find a bomb, with a skull and cross bones sticker attached to it, aimed at America, with less than five minutes till detonation. Anything less would become speculation. But we have found chemical weapons, and yet there is little acknowledgement. Why?

Is it perhaps that America is now weary of the debate? Therefore, the truth is no longer the target, but rather just tranquility. Now that Americans have decided that Bush was an idiot and that WMD did not exist, it becomes devisive to now claim that they do, and that it was going to be a problem.

I was once discussing an issue with a brother in the Lord. As we continued to disagree, he finally looked at me and said, "Look, obviously you can win this argument if you just want to look at what the Bible says. But why can't we just agree to disagree?"

That's not unity, that's a desire for uniformity. Sometimes we will seem divisive, and sometimes we will be, but we must make sure it is the truth by which we are divided. Me, I'd rather find myself united with the truth than any other group. And no, we can not just let truth go.