Pentagon Pop Quiz:

What's the latest excuse for the missing explosives in Iraq?

a) IAEA is making it up
b) Russian special forces
c) Fedayeen Saddam
d) We removed it (before the video?)
e) Dog ate it

I think the conflicting stories the pentagon is releasing is hurting Bush more than the Kerry attacks. They would do well to quit making excuses until they know the facts.

indeed.

To complete the quiz:

f) acid reflux disease
g) the drummer hit the wrong button

What about the video?

After seeing Southpark this week, the most important question is: does Flannel-man support the Giant Douche or the Turd Sandwich, the answer may surprise you, after this important message.

Seeding FUD is not information. Drudge is not information. Citing media reports is not information. It is PR, spin and confusion. And given your election is already rigged, all you are contributing is just noise to cover an incompetent, bungled imperial show of strength.

Just stop, it makes you look like an idiot, and it just reinforces the prejudice in the rest of the world that the USA is a corrupt imperial oligarchy.

Just searching out items on the net which agree with your lies is not blogging, it is just playing "telephone" with Drudge (and like most mean girls, he probably has somebody else on a conference call to hear you say something stupid).

I think the conflicting stories the pentagon is releasing is hurting Bush more than the Kerry attacks.

I disagree. I think that Kerry was definitely scoring with his message before he began this four-day-long diatribe about 380 tons of explosives.

Everyone knows that Iraq is a difficult situation right now, and we also know that the entire country is basically one BIG ammo dump. 240,000 tons of explosives, munitions, and weaponry have already been destroyed, and the coalition has secured and earmarked another 160,000 tons! Thats an incredible amount.

Now we know that approximately 250 tons of the total cache of explosives was loaded and hauled north by the military, then photos and videos taken about five days later of additional weaponry, some of which may be more explosives, then about 15 to 20 days where the military was moving cargo up and down the highway before another team came in to conduct a more thorough inspection of the facility.

The long and the short of this story is that, things like this are not simple. For all the complaints I hear about President Bush's unwillingness to see the nuances or greys of a situation, Kerry seems to have jumped the gun (no pun intended) significantly on this one.

Will this hurt him or the President? I have no idea, but, as Rumsfeld said yesterday, first reports on issues are almost always wrong. You have to show some patience and wait for the whole story.

For Kerry, the whole story doesn't work as well as a ready-made hit piece on the Prez by the NY Times. Hopefully, over the next few days, people will realize this.

We'll know on Tuesday... or sometime thereafter, depending on the lawsuits.

Thanks,

David

Yes, the point is you made a much better defense of the situation than the Pentagon did.

I'm not arguing the merits of the story but the way it has been handled looks very bad for Bush. It reinforces the picture Kerry has painted of him as a liar and someone who will not accept responsibility.

Yes, the point is you made a much better defense of the situation than the Pentagon did.

So from this, we are to infer you and Flannel-man are playing Iraq and the election as a D&D game with those multi-side dies, and then blogging about it from your mom's basement?

Well, that explains a lot.

you mean those two "rambos" haven't had a chance yet to actually serve over there?

hhmmm...interesting.

The picture was not painted by Kerry but is, rather, a self-portrait.

If you can come up with one sensible reply to this, then I'll think you have something to say. Go ahead, tell me something.