Friday, October 29, 2004
Bush/Cheney '04: Photo, video show Iraqi complex before, after invasion. Really!
The flop-sweat on these B/C '04 guys is becoming comic.0 comments
Or would be so, if they weren't making our world so much more dangerous with each and every leak, press conference and sound bite.
And dragging these poor field commanders in front of the cameras to shill for the Pentagon makes one nausceous. (They weren't given a chance in hell of being able to do their jobs correctly in the first place, and are now being blamed by cowards in suits. Disgusting.)
While the Army and Marines in Iraq moved through what was now a world-gone-mad, and while under direct orders not to become involved with looters carrying away even parts for what were obviously heavy weapons and small arms, why in heaven's name would any soldier question hundreds of Iraqis running around, hanging off pick-up trucks with some tubs of some kind of unkown white powder on the back? My lord, who would even care?
CNN: Photo, video show Iraqi complex before, after invasion
The KSTP April 18, 2003 video is Game/Set/Match for George W. Bush'S "Commander-in-Chief" skillset, as both CNN's Aaron Brown and former lead Iraq weapons inspecter David Kay agreed on Thursday night.
The Pentagon's photo in reply simply shows a big truck and a little truck, just sitting there. That's all.
An ant can't move in that region without there being full military film of it. If there were any truth to the "THEY MOVED IT!" theory, the photos would have been all over the place. These photos are as useless as the embarrassing photos Colin Powell tried to fob off onto the UN last year.
And where is Powell, by the way? He should either be siding with his former comrades in uniform, or be waving a little vial of white powder HMX right about now, to help bail out the desperate rats scurrying around in the administration.
I guess he's learned his lesson about associating with these suit guys.
Pentagon officials have said they cannot rule out the possibility that the explosives were looted.
But they said they believe it is more likely the explosives were moved before the war because it would have been difficult to move that much material in a war zone crawling with U.S. troops without detection.
The aerial photo the Pentagon released Thursday evening shows two trucks parked outside of one of the 56 bunkers in the Al-Qaqaa complex on March 17, two days before the invasion.
The photo shows a large tractor-trailer loaded with white containers; a smaller truck is parked behind it.
Pentagon officials concede the photo does not prove that the explosives were being moved.
It doesn't prove ANYTHING, actually. Asking directions, maybe? Stopping to take a leak, perhaps?
I want to see the aerial photos that show that area looking like an ant farm, with a swarm of people and light trucks and cars flying in and out for weeks on end. Those are the photos that B/C would declare open war on the American people before they would let THOSE surface. But you know they've got them.
What does NOT exist is any photo that backs up their wild theories. They've searched every file in the Pentagon by now, looking for SOMETHING that gets them off the hook of having fucked up so badly. This truck photo is ALL THEY HAD. Obviously, there's NO PHOTO of ANY convoy of trucks moving any 380 tons of explosives: that's for certain, whether the convoy would be Saddam's guys, or Russians, or Syrians, or Arafat's troops, or Ken Blackwell's Ohio militia or Ed Gillespie's campaign contributors. If ANY PHOTO existed of such a cohesive movement, it'd be plastered all over TV and the Internet within twenty minutes of The New York Times story hitting the streets.
That's now a dead issue. Period.
So, it's simple.
They fucked up.
They fucked up badly.
REALLY badly.
And, as they fear, they'll likely pay for it on Tuesday.
posted by Gotham 2:47 PM
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