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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve dietrich who wrote (652540)	10/27/2004 11:45:01 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The weapons issue is a symbol of so much....it is something people can get their brains around. In itself it is a shame..the troops did everything they could with the resources they had...but like so much going on over there, the planning, expectations, attitude, endgame...all screwed up. What arrogance.

To: steve dietrich who wrote (652540)	10/28/2004 12:39:51 AM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

So far none of the muddying of water they've done can obscure the basics: One thing they're saying >> lots of explosives and munitions were lost in the chaos of the fall of Iraq. I'm not sure why this is supposed to be reassuring to us or why it should exonerate the administration of criminal incompetence. Wasn't the stated purpose of the war, keeping big weapons out of the hands of bad people? Why does Scott McClellan think telling us they lost track of many times this much explosives will make us sleep better or want to vote for George? And the "this is old news" ploy? Three quarters of a million pounds are missing from al Qaqaa. That's enough to blow up a 747 every hour of every day for the next 87 years. Timothy McVeigh blew up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City using a truck load of a much weaker home-made explosive. With the al Qaqaa explosives he could have fit enough to commit the same crime into the back of a Cooper Mini. Three quarters of a million pounds is enough to blow up the Murrah Federal Building 5000 times.