Sunday troll-baiting: Weapons of Mass Disjunction

From boarmasters.com.

The genial Barracks O'Bama had spotted the quarry first; she was an extremely frisky specimen, and by the time I ran across them Barracks was feeling some fatigue:

.@PennyDreadful81 As long as you've admitted that Cheney lied about WMDs so he could profit off our soldiers' deaths, my work here is done.
— Barracks O'Bama (@P0TUS) May 18, 2014

Thus gloriously and unwounded did Barracks retire from the field. But a deep fog of derp still hung about the meadow, the birds sang, and my blood was up. Dr. Google and I dumped some tempting evidence in front of the opening to the troll's cave:

@PennyDreadful81 @P0TUS Clinton believed false CIA intelligence on al-Shifa factory http://t.co/AKa4Qeqcwi
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 18, 2014

@P0TUS @PennyDreadful81 Cheney rejected decent CIA intelligence and demanded lies http://t.co/lrKLI07mnD
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 18, 2014

The troll peeked out, sniffed at the evidence, and haughtily rejected it.

@PennyDreadful81 @P0TUS you have any evidence it' s not true?
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 18, 2014

Unexpectedly, Penny turned up with a link. Though not, as it happened (who could have expected?), a relevant one.

@PennyDreadful81 @P0TUS Chemical weapons residue from before 1991 that even Saddam didn't know about.
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 18, 2014

@PennyDreadful81 @P0TUS Don't recall ever hearing of it and can't find any evidence now.
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 18, 2014

@PennyDreadful81 @P0TUS Nope, no UN-discovered Iraqi arsenals in Syria there.
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 18, 2014

@PennyDreadful81 @P0TUS Nope, no Syria there.
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 18, 2014

@Yastreblyansky Oh, so you're blind AND dumb. @P0TUS
— Melissa (@PennyDreadful81) May 18, 2014

What happened next was as good as it got all day—sorry, Mr. Blind and Dumb Guy, wrong link again! I was so excited my spelling began to collapse.

@PennyDreadful81 @P0TUS As far as the IBD story is concerned I'm convinced by this refuation http://t.co/FDOikSaTOP
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 18, 2014

Proposing yet a third irrelevant link, she's starting to resemble GWB himself.

"Those weapons have gotta be somewhere". Via BBC.

@PennyDreadful81 @P0TUS And no "UN discovered an Iraqi arsenal" in the IBD stor in any case, just vague intelligence from 2002.
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 18, 2014

@PennyDreadful81 @P0TUS Assad's huge chemical weapons arsenal was real but had nothing to do with Iraq. Look at the Wired article at least.
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 18, 2014

@PennyDreadful81 @P0TUS What's really ironic is I'm in the position of defending Clinton for that idiotic Sudan bombing, which was criminal.
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 18, 2014

@PennyDreadful81 @P0TUS But it was nothing compared to the horror wrought by Cheney and Bush on Iraq, nothing.
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 18, 2014

At this point the game is pretty much over, as it's clear in any event that the Iraqi arms discovered by the United Nations in Syria are entirely produced by Penny's overheated imagination. But a couple of friends dropped by to kibbitz.

@AaronMDellutri @PennyDreadful81 @P0TUS Aaron, I'm trying to maintain an elevated critical-reading tone here.
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 18, 2014

@AaronMDellutri @PennyDreadful81 @P0TUS The fact that the Post is a piece of shit is entirely irrelevant.
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 18, 2014

@HamishMack @AaronMDellutri @PennyDreadful81 @P0TUS Rendered helpless by my tears. I rust my case.
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 18, 2014

That seemed like a lovely place to stop and repair with Hamish and Aaron to the Old Entomologist for a pint of something crispy, but Dreadful Penny wasn't having it. In fact she seemed prepared for a gigantically disjunctive leap all the way back to the beginning, calling me out for the unforced error of citing a Wikipedia article. She never did find out that the Wikipedia article more or less agreed with her that the 1998 bombing of the al-Shifa chemical factory was a mistake. Not to mention the sheer quality of the article, a sample of Wikipedia at its greatest, massively sourced and utterly dispassionate. A good Wikipedia article is much better than a Times story as evidence, because its documentation is so open and you can evaluate it yourself. No "sources close to the liar in question" here.

@PennyDreadful81 @AaronMDellutri @P0TUS I think I'll spare you. But here's a last link. http://t.co/O6HE88cM3B
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 19, 2014

@PennyDreadful81 @AaronMDellutri It's because I've already given up on you. #EpistemicClosure. I'm just fucking with you now.
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 19, 2014