Slaughter and sloppiness

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Slaughter and sloppiness

Donald — 10/26/2004 1:24:23 PM (archived)

Slaughter and sloppiness

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD

The most foolhardy comment one can make about the mess in Iraq is that it can't get any worse. The weekend brought the massacre of 50 freshly minted Iraqi soldiers and news that nearly 400 tons of explosives had simply vanished from a former Iraq military installation.

These events -- one horrific, the other potentially catastrophic -- are more evidence of the Bush administration's gross miscalculations in a war that was unnecessary.

Allowing hundreds of tons of munitions to disappear from a well-known stockpile is again the result of having insufficient military forces to secure a hostile nation the size of California. One of the cited justifications for the war was the threat posed by an Iraqi nuclear weapons program. The site at issue, Al Qaqaav, was widely known to contain explosives capable of detonating nuclear weapons, yet it was not secured.

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The worst may be yet to come in Iraq - Donald - 10/26/2004 1:22:34 PM
- Tracking Inspections Jan 2003 - Jack Herer - 10/26/2004 4:59:31 PM
- And, of course, the question nobody is asking... - Tom Brosz - 10/26/2004 3:54:02 PM
  - Why didn't the UN inspectors burn it? - Gary - 10/26/2004 4:27:53 PM
- Ewww....Comic Guy says, "Worst Thread Ever!" ;) - Tom Brosz - 10/26/2004 3:21:37 PM
  - Isn't it interesting that.... - Gary - 10/26/2004 3:37:36 PM
    - Drudgereport is running with this story on the MSM (n/t) - Gary - 10/26/2004 3:49:31 PM
- Turns out the claims aboutt he missing explosives was 'incorrect', Don. (n/t) - ebnelson - 10/26/2004 1:58:22 PM
  - So let me get this straight, Ed... - Donald - 10/26/2004 2:15:44 PM
    - Get it straight, if you can: The explosives were not there. It is the museum lie told much larger. - ebnelson - 10/26/2004 2:30:02 PM
      - Off the deep end - Donald - 10/26/2004 2:48:19 PM
        
        PS: How to tell when Don knows he has lost an argument - ebnelson - 10/26/2004 2:55:22 PM
        
        whereas we know you've lost when you resort to base insult - Davin L. - 10/26/2004 5:17:55 PM
        
        He's lost at life - that's why he leads with "a base insult". No content, empty. (n/t) - Bowser - 10/26/2004 8:00:32 PM
        
        You only wish it were so. - ebnelson - 10/26/2004 5:45:06 PM
        
        Yes, those pesky eye witnesses get in the way of agenda driven news. And I am sure you still think the documents were 'fake but accurate'. You seem to enjoy a diet of bs, Don. (n/t) - ebnelson - 10/26/2004 2:52:51 PM
        
        A scarab beetle rolling his ball of dung (n/t) - Gary - 10/26/2004 3:40:14 PM
        
        re: So you have come to the same conclusion about Ed as I have. He is a RNC dung roller! (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 10/26/2004 11:43:17 PM
    - What exactly about this article... - Donald - 10/26/2004 2:20:21 PM
      - And explain this Pentagon confirmation - Donald - 10/26/2004 2:22:42 PM
        
        I doubt it. I would bet the context is very different. - ebnelson - 10/26/2004 2:31:40 PM
        
        Hey Ed. Black is black and white is white. (n/t) - LJ - 10/26/2004 3:16:14 PM
        
        Speaking of black and white, CBS was going to do another sham report hit on the Bush Administration. - ebnelson - 10/26/2004 4:05:02 PM
- Bush cover-up exposed - Donald - 10/26/2004 1:48:46 PM
  - But the claim is false, so the coverup is false, Don (n/t) - ebnelson - 10/26/2004 2:05:14 PM
- Bush's blunders in Iraq - Donald - 10/26/2004 1:47:29 PM
  - So another critique based on a false premise, Don. (n/t) - ebnelson - 10/26/2004 2:05:57 PM
- Iraq's missing explosives - Donald - 10/26/2004 1:40:16 PM
  - Yet another condemnation based on a false premise, Don. (n/t) - ebnelson - 10/26/2004 2:06:37 PM
- Worse Than the Usual Bad - Donald - 10/26/2004 1:34:39 PM
  - Don, you wouldn't be trying to do a 'james' and just spam bs here, would you? (n/t) - ebnelson - 10/26/2004 2:07:25 PM
- Making Things Worse - Donald - 10/26/2004 1:30:37 PM
  - But since Al Zarqaiw has always been Al Qaeda, why is this news? - ebnelson - 10/26/2004 2:08:55 PM
- Slaughter and sloppiness - Donald - 10/26/2004 1:24:23 PM
  - laughter of Iraqi heroes you say are unworthy of our support, and 'theft' of explosives that weren't even there. (n/t) - ebnelson - 10/26/2004 2:10:03 PM
    - I think there's an s-hole somehere... (n/t) - LJ - 10/26/2004 4:36:39 PM
    - re:(s) laughter of Iraqi heroes you say are unworthy of our support, and 'theft' of explosives that weren't even there. (n/t) - ebnelson - 10/26/2004 2:10:41 PM

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