Thursday, October 28, 2004
The speed of combat
Things are moving too fast for any one person to keep up with them. No matter the outcome of the election, we should all be grateful for the blogosphere -- whatever its warts -- for focusing the talents and attention of so many extraordinary people, on both sides, on the maneuvers and outright attempts at subversion of the election.
I'm thinking primarily of CBS, which followed its Rathergate fiasco with this latest brouhaha about plastic explosives (the Deadliest Weapons Known to Man! Catastrophe in a clay brick! The land will be uninhabitable for 10,000 years!), both naked attempts to destroy George W. Bush, and both blown away by the laser-guided bunker-buster of the blogosphere. (Not including myself, of course. I know my role: as a parasite living off the efforts of my betters.)
This morning, via Instapundit sub Ann Althouse, this ABC News story that the amount of missing explosives may have been... well... just slightly overstated.
By about 374 tons.
The report also points out that the bunkers containing the explosives had ventilation slats that could easily have been removed without compromising the IAEA's "Passed By Inspector 12" seals, rendering them useless. Given that the 3rd Infantry Division didn't find them, nor the 101st Airborne, on their respective marches to Baghdad, there's now literally no way to know whether the bunkers had been cleared out prior to March 2003.
And in a story that may shed light on why we haven't found the weapons of mass destruction that everybody knew Saddam had prior to the invasion, the Washington Times reports that Russian special forces troops helped move the missing explosives, along with a bunch of other nastiness supplied to the Hussein regime by Russia and her satellites, to Syria in the months leading up to the war.
If this is true... and I admit it's a big if... but if it's true, it means the people from whom John Kerry would seek approval for any future preemptive action against threats to the US are actively involved in arming and supporting our enemies.
|
I'm thinking primarily of CBS, which followed its Rathergate fiasco with this latest brouhaha about plastic explosives (the Deadliest Weapons Known to Man! Catastrophe in a clay brick! The land will be uninhabitable for 10,000 years!), both naked attempts to destroy George W. Bush, and both blown away by the laser-guided bunker-buster of the blogosphere. (Not including myself, of course. I know my role: as a parasite living off the efforts of my betters.)
This morning, via Instapundit sub Ann Althouse, this ABC News story that the amount of missing explosives may have been... well... just slightly overstated.
By about 374 tons.
The report also points out that the bunkers containing the explosives had ventilation slats that could easily have been removed without compromising the IAEA's "Passed By Inspector 12" seals, rendering them useless. Given that the 3rd Infantry Division didn't find them, nor the 101st Airborne, on their respective marches to Baghdad, there's now literally no way to know whether the bunkers had been cleared out prior to March 2003.
And in a story that may shed light on why we haven't found the weapons of mass destruction that everybody knew Saddam had prior to the invasion, the Washington Times reports that Russian special forces troops helped move the missing explosives, along with a bunch of other nastiness supplied to the Hussein regime by Russia and her satellites, to Syria in the months leading up to the war.
If this is true... and I admit it's a big if... but if it's true, it means the people from whom John Kerry would seek approval for any future preemptive action against threats to the US are actively involved in arming and supporting our enemies.
Comments:
Post a Comment
