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To: TimF who wrote (153128)	12/2/2004 3:17:22 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Oh dear. This particular line of discussion started with Neocon's summary dismissal of the Pentagon report: 'Members, whose appointed terms range from one to four years, are selected on the basis of their preeminence in the fields of science, technology and its application to military operations, research, engineering, manufacturing and acquisition process.' In other words, their expertise does NOT lie in Islamic Studies, the Middle East, Foreign Policy, Terrorism, or anything else they are speculating on in this report. In fact, they may as well be a group of software engineers randomly picked from the Microsoft campus, for all the authority with which they speak in this area. techstocks.com I guess that was an appeal to anti-authority or something, I don't exactly know how to characterize the sentence-out-of-context carpage about a newspaper article about a long report that I doubt Neocon actually looked at before posting that nugget. Anyway, looking back over local warbloggerage, I came across this sterling example: techstocks.com There was a lot of garbage tossed out on that particular story, but the last I remember reading was that there was actual video footage of the RDX in the presence of US troops. Who, of course, were on their way elsewhere. Somewhere in that time froma, Rudy Guiliani was flacking for W, within a day or two he managed to both blame it on the troops and accuse John Kerry of blaming it on the troops. Buck's gotta go somewhere away from W's general vicinity, is the rule as I understand it. It wasn't exactly a new story, of course. Everybody knew from the very beginning that the WMD sites were looted like everything else. Why, exactly, in a war allegedly fought over WMDs, there was no plan to secure the WMD sites is something best left to experts in the official W version of "personal responsibility".