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To: one_less who wrote (47082)	5/24/2004 4:07:30 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 89467

the statement can't be merely that someone was mistaken about the facts when they uttered the statement, they must have known it was false at the time. Maybe it was just a mistake the first two times it was repeated. Just look a the transparent spin from the first explantion. <font color=green> "Ten miles from Syrian border and 80 miles from nearest city and a wedding party? Don't be naive," said Marine Maj. Gen. James N. Mattis in Fallujah. "Plus they had 30 males of military age with them. How many people go to the middle of the desert to have a wedding party."</font> The wedding was in the groom's town. It had twenty-five houses. That's not much smaller than the town where I grew up. Where did they expect the wedding to be? And 30 males? Between my wife and I we easily had 30 families attend our wedding, including many males who were of the same age I was at the time. It wasn't a particularly large wedding. This is snearing of the worst kind. Much was also made of the fact that they found a cache of weapons and money. It turns out the weapons were shotguns and the money amounted to about $1000, apparently wedding gifts. How low were these planes flying if they were worried about shotgun fire? By the second day, and after the first filmed reports of the children's bodies the administration once again issued statements emphasising the contraband. <font color=maroon> But the U.S. military vehemently denied that accusation Thursday, saying that bombers were aiming at a transit house for infiltrators slipping across the Iraqi-Syrian border to fight coalition troops in Iraq. After the air attack, a search turned up foreign passports, money, weapons and a satellite communications radio, military officials said. </font> They try to make it sound like these people had an AWACS for coordinating attacks, when in fact one of the guests had a cell phone on his body. By the third attempt, there was no pretense of subtle wordsmithing. There was just bold lies with the hope that it would be their word against the disgruntled "insurgents". Too bad for them, there were pictures. <font color=blue> "There was no evidence of a wedding: no decorations, no musical instruments found, no large quantities of food or leftover servings one would expect from a wedding celebration," Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said Saturday. "There may have been some kind of celebration. Bad people have celebrations, too." But video that APTN shot a day after the attack shows fragments of musical instruments, pots and pans and brightly colored beddings used for celebrations, scattered around the bombed out tent. .... A water tanker truck can be seen in both the video shot by APTN and the wedding tape obtained from a cousin of the groom. On Monday, a senior coalition military officer said "we still don't believe there was a wedding going on" and that intelligence showed that only legitimate targets were attacked. </font> Bush & Co. lost the benefit of the doubt over a year ago. TP