Weldon on safari for WMDs?

Curt Weldon has done a lot of whacky things, and we'll be commenting on those as we go forward, but this recent one is just so bizarre that we had to jump in with a post on this now, while it's strangeness is still new.

So it appears that Weldon wanted to go on a safari for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, following a hot tip, hoping to score big political points for himself and Bush. Can you just see the potential headlines? Weldon finds the long lost WMDs!

Check out the piece by Tom Ferrick Jr. in the Philadelphia Inquirer, excerpted below. Then check out the Weldons of Mass Destruction cartoon by Tony Peyser on BuzzFlash. Reprinted here by permission, copyright 2006 Tony Peyser.

Indiana Jones? No, it's Weldon
By Tom Ferrick Jr., Inquirer Columnist
Wed, Jun. 28, 2006

It's a scene out of an Indiana Jones movie - or an Indiana Jones parody:

A caravan of jeeps and heavy equipment crawls across the Iraqi desert, headed for a secret location on the banks of the Euphrates River.

Their mission: to dig 25 feet down into the riverbed and unearth concrete bunkers filled with chemical weapons produced by Saddam Hussein's regime and hidden before the outbreak of the Iraq war in 2003.

And who's that, dressed in a safari jacket and a pith helmet, supervising the dig?

None other than our own U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon (R., Pa.), leading a secret mission to unearth the Holy Grail of the war: the weapons of mass destruction that have eluded every other U.S. search team since our troops invaded three years ago.

In this article, Weldon is quoted as saying that he viewed this trip to look for WMDs as a "personal political venture".

So once again, instead of being an international hero, daredevil, and adventurer, Curt Weldon was once again exposed as the cariciture of a real Congressman that he is. Full of political motivations too. Is anybody surprised?