ブッシュがオーバルオフィスの家具の下を覗き込んでいる。「ない・・・武器がない」。

3月24日夜、テレビ・ラジオ局記者連合の晩餐会に招待されたブッシュのスピーチ。
WMDが見つからないことをジョークに仕立て上げている。ひでえな。というか、このポピュリストぶりが支持の理由でもあると思うと、悲しくなる。この軽薄さと、死んだ一万人のイラク人はバランスするのだろうか。”圧倒的な非対称”(レビーストロース)がここにはある。

It's standard fare humor. Bush says he is preparing for a tough election fight; then on the large video screens a picture flashes showing him wearing a boxing robe while sitting at his desk. Bush notes he spends "a lot of time on the phone listening to our European allies." Then we see a photo of him on the phone with a finger in his ear. There were funny bits about Skull and Bones, his mother, and Dick Cheney. But at one point, Bush showed a photo of himself looking for something out a window in the Oval Office, and he said, "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere."

The audience laughed. I grimaced. But that wasn't the end of it. After a few more slides, there was a shot of Bush looking under furniture in the Oval Office. "Nope," he said. "No weapons over there." More laughter. Then another picture of Bush searching in his office: "Maybe under here." Laughter again.

MIA WMDs--For Bush, It's a Joke by David Corn
ザ・ネーションより。