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I gotchyer "October Surprise" right over here
Juan Cole has the most balanced take on the case of the purloined 380 tons of high-grade explosives in Iraq.
Joshua Micah has the most extensive take on it since he started non-stop blogging on this last night, although he is far harder on the Bush Administration than most of the news this a.m.
October surprise indeed!
'Cept I'm pretty sure that this is not what Rove was thinking.
If you've been near the news at all today, you know that 380 tons of HMX and RDX went missing during the looting right after U.S. troops entered the country.
What makes it really infuriating is that these explosives were under the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) seal (basically the U.N. inspectors who were tracking Saddam's weapons and nuclear ability). Ergo, the U.N. knew about it. The U.S. knew about it. Other countries made sure to tell our country to make sure we kept these IAEA stashes secure before we marched into Iraq.
However, as it's become increasingly clear, the Bush Administration does not live in a reality-based world. We were too fucking busy being greeted with flowers and chocolates by the natives that someone "forgot" to do this. The U.N. asks us to do one goddamn thing (actually, they asked us to do two things: don't invade; if you insist on invading, keep on eye on this stuff) and U.S. chain of command fucks it up.
So, while we were guarding the oil fields from getting all blowed up, someone failed to put a guard on stockpiles of high-grade explosives that we knew about.
These same explosives are now being used to blow up American troops.
And we're supposed to trust Rumsfeld and his boss Bush to protect us from terrorists when they can't stop looters from taking 380 tons of high grade explosives that the government knew about before we marched into Iraq and was under U.N. seal before we even stepped foot in the country?
Unh-hunh.
Remember when, during the debates, John Kerry accused George Bush of putting more emphasis on guarding the oil fields instead of the ammo dumps? Remember how he said the materials were left unguarded and had been looted? Remember how he said these same weapons were now being turned on American troops?
You do remember, right?
He accused Bush of this in at least the first and third debates. I'm not 100% certain that Kerry did it in the second debate.
Don't make me go all C-Span linkage on your ass.
Suddenly all that nattering about who was more "presidential" on screen looks incredibly stupid. And this "Mary Cheney, Mary Cheney" bullshit is enough to grind your teeth.
You'd think our "liberal media" would've fact checked this point and, if they found it to be true, would've reported it. Somewhere.
But no. Kerry's statement about "guarding the oil fields and not the weapons depots" wasn't debunked (at least as far as I know), but no one in our media decided to start digging.
(ETA: I stand corrected: CNN did run a stroy about the IAEA warning that "nuclear materials" were missing, but did not have any explicit details, certainly not the level we're getting now.)
The only reason why this story has hit the press is because the Nelson Report blew the story open and it was picked up by The New York Times.
This story was all over NPR this morning. (Story not up on site yet.)
Depending on who you read, the Bush Administration either:
Either way, this does not make the Bush Administration look good. And why the fuck does Rumsfeld still have his goddamn job? He better thank his lucky stars that he's got the boss he does because if he was in the private sector he'd be driven into the streets and whipped like a dog.
Sorry for the rant but I'm positively enraged about this.
How the fuck can anyone even think of pulling the lever for Bush? I mean, how? How much more fucking proof do you need that the Bush Administration has bent the military over a table and fucked it up the ass? How much more fucking proof do you need that these people are screwing the citizenery for some neocon-fuckwit agenda that makes no good goddamn sense to those of us who live in the reality-based community?
Are you fucking blind? Or are you constantly stoned? Or are you just terminally stupid?
If I've insulted you for voting for Bush? Tough shit.
Read the links and weep, baby.
This is the Bush Administration I've seen for two goddamn years, but I've been a polite little girl and have not put down anyone's right to support GeeDubbya, the U.S.'s first seriously retarded president. (And I'm insulting all developmentally challenged people the world over by calling him that.)
That ends. Right fucking now.
I want this man fired. Then I want to see his entire Administration hauled before one of those secret military tribunals they so fucking love and tried for high treason.
Makes me fear for November 3, because, no matter who wins, something tells me the streets are gonig to run red with blood as the poison of the past four years finally explodes out into the open and takes down GeeDubbya and all his puppetmasters in a flood of filth.
Joshua Micah has the most extensive take on it since he started non-stop blogging on this last night, although he is far harder on the Bush Administration than most of the news this a.m.
October surprise indeed!
'Cept I'm pretty sure that this is not what Rove was thinking.
If you've been near the news at all today, you know that 380 tons of HMX and RDX went missing during the looting right after U.S. troops entered the country.
What makes it really infuriating is that these explosives were under the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) seal (basically the U.N. inspectors who were tracking Saddam's weapons and nuclear ability). Ergo, the U.N. knew about it. The U.S. knew about it. Other countries made sure to tell our country to make sure we kept these IAEA stashes secure before we marched into Iraq.
However, as it's become increasingly clear, the Bush Administration does not live in a reality-based world. We were too fucking busy being greeted with flowers and chocolates by the natives that someone "forgot" to do this. The U.N. asks us to do one goddamn thing (actually, they asked us to do two things: don't invade; if you insist on invading, keep on eye on this stuff) and U.S. chain of command fucks it up.
So, while we were guarding the oil fields from getting all blowed up, someone failed to put a guard on stockpiles of high-grade explosives that we knew about.
These same explosives are now being used to blow up American troops.
And we're supposed to trust Rumsfeld and his boss Bush to protect us from terrorists when they can't stop looters from taking 380 tons of high grade explosives that the government knew about before we marched into Iraq and was under U.N. seal before we even stepped foot in the country?
Unh-hunh.
Remember when, during the debates, John Kerry accused George Bush of putting more emphasis on guarding the oil fields instead of the ammo dumps? Remember how he said the materials were left unguarded and had been looted? Remember how he said these same weapons were now being turned on American troops?
You do remember, right?
He accused Bush of this in at least the first and third debates. I'm not 100% certain that Kerry did it in the second debate.
Don't make me go all C-Span linkage on your ass.
Suddenly all that nattering about who was more "presidential" on screen looks incredibly stupid. And this "Mary Cheney, Mary Cheney" bullshit is enough to grind your teeth.
You'd think our "liberal media" would've fact checked this point and, if they found it to be true, would've reported it. Somewhere.
But no. Kerry's statement about "guarding the oil fields and not the weapons depots" wasn't debunked (at least as far as I know), but no one in our media decided to start digging.
(ETA: I stand corrected: CNN did run a stroy about the IAEA warning that "nuclear materials" were missing, but did not have any explicit details, certainly not the level we're getting now.)
The only reason why this story has hit the press is because the Nelson Report blew the story open and it was picked up by The New York Times.
This story was all over NPR this morning. (Story not up on site yet.)
Depending on who you read, the Bush Administration either:
- Unofficially knew about this for a year and has been covering it up; but the constant insurgent attacks on U.S. troops and Iraqi government forces working with the U.S. troops using car bombs and suicide bombers where HMX and RDX are an ingredient has forced the Iraqi Provisional Government to report the theft earlier this month to the IAEA (read: the U.N.), thereby forcing the issue into the light of day
- Is a Keystone Cops outfit where everybody knew that protecting the oil feilds was important but someone in the chain of command failed to realize that maybe, just maybe we should be guarding the high-yield explosives that the U.N. fucking told us was there before we invaded
Either way, this does not make the Bush Administration look good. And why the fuck does Rumsfeld still have his goddamn job? He better thank his lucky stars that he's got the boss he does because if he was in the private sector he'd be driven into the streets and whipped like a dog.
Sorry for the rant but I'm positively enraged about this.
How the fuck can anyone even think of pulling the lever for Bush? I mean, how? How much more fucking proof do you need that the Bush Administration has bent the military over a table and fucked it up the ass? How much more fucking proof do you need that these people are screwing the citizenery for some neocon-fuckwit agenda that makes no good goddamn sense to those of us who live in the reality-based community?
Are you fucking blind? Or are you constantly stoned? Or are you just terminally stupid?
If I've insulted you for voting for Bush? Tough shit.
Read the links and weep, baby.
This is the Bush Administration I've seen for two goddamn years, but I've been a polite little girl and have not put down anyone's right to support GeeDubbya, the U.S.'s first seriously retarded president. (And I'm insulting all developmentally challenged people the world over by calling him that.)
That ends. Right fucking now.
I want this man fired. Then I want to see his entire Administration hauled before one of those secret military tribunals they so fucking love and tried for high treason.
Makes me fear for November 3, because, no matter who wins, something tells me the streets are gonig to run red with blood as the poison of the past four years finally explodes out into the open and takes down GeeDubbya and all his puppetmasters in a flood of filth.
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And have you noticed how his almost-daily updates of the "war" went the way of the dinosaur. You hardly ever see Rumsfeld's mug on the boob-tube anymore - thank goodness. The admin couldn't take their chances with him standing up there and smugly stating whatever lies he may be stating for each particular "update".
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For this sentence alone, I heart you madly.
And I admire yr passion and fine writing all throughout this post. It's a v good one. Thank you for putting it up.
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Do you have to be so ambivalent? I mean, really, can't you just say how you feel without all the circumlocutions?
I voted for Bush. I didn't want to, really, but I did. I really didn't feel badly about it until we went into Iraq.
I'm going to vote for Kerry. I don't want to, really, but I will. I won't really feel badly about it for a while, but I will eventually.
Who did I want to run? Powell. Powell or, maybe, some obscure governor of a state that has more representatives than sentaors, and who isn't a total lunatic.
Someday, before I die, I'd really like to have an election where I have to agonize over which guy I like more, instead of loathe least. And I do loathe both of these losers.
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(Anonymous) 2004-10-26 12:04 am (UTC)(link)Try being the country right next to your crazy ass...we are constantly shocked...we sit here with our jaws to the floor over the bush government...we saw Micheal Moores film..we ofcourse didn't need to see it cause we have a cool canadian show called the Passionate eye that shows real time documentaries.. about what is actually happening in the world...we don't have to watch CNN or CBs...we see it all...and let me tell you it's scaring us all...by the way...we knew about the ammo dump being missing...months and months ago...arab journalists were reporting about looted ammo dumps right after the war...ofcourse the media ignored that..they were heh Arab journalists...
America invaded a soverign country that never threatened America....they didn't like the leader...wow...what happens if he doesn't like us? we have tons of oil here and fresh water...I guess if we say anything we are next...
I still cannot believe the US invaded and murdered people on such a stupid pretext...we have nuclear capability...we have nuclear power plants...hell it would take us twenty minutes to build a bomb...we have everything Iraq did except we are a parliamentary democracy and we didn't threaten to kill his daddy.
The world is filled with countries that are Iraq...north korea, China, Iran...hell saudi arabia too...who is next?
Four more years of Bush and the rest of the world is going to have to create a coalition of the terrified to kick America in the ass and make it behave...and you know america would react well to that...bombs for everyone......
does the world have to stand by while the US brings bombs and Jesus to the rest of the world?
If you invade north korea or Iran and spur them to drop a nuclear...sorry nucular bomb on you as canadians do we get fried alongside you?
The US goes out and provokes Muslim extremists, encourages AlQueda to recruit with a new poster child of Us oppression and the rest of the world burns for it.......and worse..those poor damned US soldiers...all they ask of their government is one simple damn thing...when you ask to die for our country make sure we are dying as the very last resort and for a just cause.....typical of men who have never been to war..hey cheney..7 deferments? to send innocents to their death....what the hell was Colin Powell thinking?....He was once an honourable man....
Please vote..drag everyone you know to vote and vote for Kerry...he ain't much but I think it's possible he won't destroy the world in a fit of petulance...think of your vote as a vote for us poor scared canadians who don't get any say..