Shot In The Dark: Damn the Refutation

October 26, 2004

Damn the Refutation - Full Speed Ahead!

The left, naturally, is throwing everything it has into keeping this story on life support. As well they should - they conveniently had an ad campaign (and plenty of free news push) ready to roll in synch with this story's breaking. Their damage control is as feeble as the original story.

Someone - one of you lefties out there - tell me how this passes the sniff test?

380 tons - 19 full semi tractor-trailers - is not a low-profile operation. Question for you; which scenario is more likely:
- Looters, operating under constant intelligence overflights, with access to 19 semis (or hundreds/thousands of trips by smaller vehicles) or
- A Hussein government operation long before any invasion took place? Remember - carrying out the mission after the invasion would be very difficult...)
Let's not forget the IAEA tie-in.

So which scenario requires less suspension of disbelief - that the HMX and RDX was gone and the IAEA is playing politics, or that looters carried out a near-superhuman feat of logistics?

The elite of the lefty blogosphere - who are largely bought and paid for by George Soros - is going to blow enough BS into the ether in the next 24 hours to fertilize the Mojave Desert. If you're a conservative blogger or Bush supporter, you have to get ready to get the truth out there.

As Drudge says, "Developing hot".

Posted by Mitch at October 26, 2004 04:28 PM | TrackBack

Comments

Has this ad EVEN aired? Anywhere?

If not it is purely Microsoftian FUD. It's Vaporware!

Posted by: Eric Anondson at October 26, 2004 05:36 PM

FoxNews ran the Kerry ad on the O'Reilly show. Kerry made the damn ad.

Kerry is saying: "Logic and the 101st Airborne say it is bullshit...but the U.N. says it is true. I'm John Kerry and I gotta go with the U/N."

CinC? No freakin' way!

Posted by: justrand at October 26, 2004 09:46 PM

The second bullet point under 1: doesn't make any sense. Hussein would have had to *know* that there would be a need for a media coup to blow up in Bush's face at this time.

Oh, wait, that's not what you're saying. Sorry, too many arguments with moonbats.

Posted by: Brian Jones at October 26, 2004 10:38 PM

Mitch, I know you're beyond reason, but....

"White House officials reasserted yesterday that 380 tons of powerful explosives may have disappeared from a vast Iraqi military complex while Saddam Hussein controlled Iraq, saying a brigade of American soldiers did not find the explosives when they visited the complex on April 10, 2003, the day after Baghdad fell.

But the unit's commander said in an interview yesterday that his troops had not searched the facility and had merely stopped there for the night on their way to Baghdad."

Todays NYT.

Sorry, Mitch, Story Not Refuted. Try Again.

Posted by: Jeff Fecke at October 27, 2004 12:04 AM

Jeff,

I'm not beyond reason - you just so rarely provide any compellng reasons to think, much less change my mind.

Oh, yeah:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83252,00.html

Sorry, Jeff - refutation not refuted.

And if you want to be calling me "beyond reason", kindly provide something beyond reheated Atrios/Kos/Marshall posts; they have departed the surly bonds of reason on this issue.

Posted by: mitch at October 27, 2004 05:22 AM

Oh, yeah, Jeff - the brigade of the 101st Airborne didn't secure the complex...

...because a combat engineer brigade attached to the Third Infantry had already done it.

http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/002872.php

(Note - Combat Engineers are the guys who work with things like explosives...)

Even you'll have to admit it someday, Jeff - the NYTimes got played by (or played along with) the IAEA. The big leftyblogs - who are pretty much shills for Soros these days - are doing what they can to keep this story afloat, and none of them has the ability, much less the integrity, to check facts. The rest of the leftyblogs seem to follow from lack of any better ideas.

If there were any justice - if our major media had enough integrity in general (kudos to NBC), this story would blow up and take the NYTimes and Josh Marshall, and maybe Kerry's campaign with it.

Posted by: mitch at October 27, 2004 06:02 AM

Of greater concern: This is not the October surprise, but just the setup...

See http://polipundit.com/index.php?p=4820

Posted by: MWB at October 27, 2004 06:19 AM

A Minnesota TV news crew recorded footage of what appears to be Al Qaqaa's missing explosives, shot two weeks after the invasion of Iraq.
http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S3723.html?cat=1

Posted by: Tom B. at October 28, 2004 11:08 AM