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To: SheLion
I don't think anyone will call THIS Major a liar!

No, they will just willfully "misunderstand" his point and claim that the Pentagon is only doing "damage control." The reporters were very clearly implying that the major's story is irrelevant. They are being deliberately obtuse in not understanding the point, which is, "We don't even know if the "380 tons" existed, or even where it was supposedly kept! (underlying message, you idiots!)"

909 posted on 10/29/2004 9:53:11 AM PDT by pharmamom (They can't riot if they're stuned in disbelief.)
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To: pharmamom
" The reporters were very clearly implying that the major's story is irrelevant."

And, in a sense, they are correct. They, like most Americans following this, would also ask the Major if some of this "bad stuff"--the HMX, for example---was part of that 250 tonnes he says his forces removed from the site.

The Major replied that this wasn't his area of expertiese. His deal was logistics---physically moving what his people found, whatever was "easily accessible"---and that follow-on forces were to go to the ammo dump where this stuff was placed to identify what was there.

In that sense, the MSM reporters there are correct. I think it's also fair to ask why someone who *could* directly speak to the full nature of what was removed hasn't been brought forward yet.

Hey, I don't like the MSM any more than the next guy, but some of their skepticism here is well founded at the moment.

958 posted on 10/29/2004 9:58:03 AM PDT by LincolnLover (Useless Vanities and Reposts--The Bane of an Admin Moderator's Existence!)
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To: pharmamom
No, they will just willfully "misunderstand" his point and claim that the Pentagon is only doing "damage control." The reporters were very clearly implying that the major's story is irrelevant. They are being deliberately obtuse in not understanding the point, which is, "We don't even know if the "380 tons" existed, or even where it was supposedly kept! (underlying message, you idiots!)"

Well, we know what the Pentagon did with the soldiers from that prison for putting panties on the heads of the prisoners. What do you think they would do if this Major was lying and put the Pentagon in such a bad light? I don't THINK so.

980 posted on 10/29/2004 10:00:28 AM PDT by SheLion ( Rove knew that sKerry was a man that stood for nothing and therefore would fall for anything.)
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