now Gertz is on Greta Van Susteren again - still pushing this Russia thing. This story is out of control - all these different things cannot be true.
Everybody's a friggin' expert. With all this dust, most voters are going to be neutral on this story, which means that Kerry's efforts have all been in vain.
No, they aren't all true. The thread has much detail but let me summarize a bit:
The ABC story says the 101st was at Al Qaqaa--*the site that is at issue where the 380 tons was supposed to be* on April 18.
That is false. They were there on April 10. I therefore deduce the video in this report is from a different site. We don't know what was done by other troops at the site this video was shot at or with the stuff found there because the reporting has not been on it---it's been on the Al Qaqaa complex.
The Russian story I don't know if it is true. The satellite picture released today was taken two days before the war even began--the picture taken at the site in question, not wherever this ABC story was (they said it was Al Qaqaa but it couldn't have been)
And remember, once our troops were on these roads we owned the roads and we owned the skies. We monitored convoys and the stuff was not "looted" or stolen under our noses because we would have seen it. Period.
It's a total wash - there's so much conflicting information, so many charges and countercharges and disagreeing "experts" that most people are just going to throw up their hands in disgust and tune it out. In the weeks following the election the results of the investigation will be released (conclusion: we don't have a friggin' clue what happened to the explosives, or how much was there), the media will chew it over for a day or so, and then it will be forgotten.