Re: More fun and games in Iraq

From: 14tonks (mail.2.14tonks_at_recursor.net)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:19:24 -0400

I apologize, Mike. Yes, you are one of the few conservative posters to this
newsgroup who is actually willing to read all news sources and balance the
conflicting views rationally. It's just that _someone_ always jumps on
_any_ reference to anything in the NY Times, insisting it is a biased source
(like the rest of the reporting in this country isn't equally biased
<rolling eyes>). 

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"Mike DeTuri" <seemy@webpage.com> wrote in message
news:7-CdnUBpAe8weeLcRVn-qQ@adelphia.com...
> Please.  I don't have a problem with the NYT.  I was just relaying what
> I saw.  Thank you for relaying what you found.
>
> Mike DeTuri
> http://www.deturi.com
>
>
> 14tonks wrote:
> > Well, I realize the NY Times qualifies in your book as a suspect leftist
> > liberal newspaper, but since Fox news qualifies in mine as a suspect
> > right-wing conservative one, the two should balance out.  I also
recollect
> > reading some of this elsewhere yesterday, probably on some of the Yahoo
news
> > feeds, but honestly don't have time today to track the other references
down
> > for you, so I'm just going to post the one from my local morning
newspaper.
> > Make what you will of it.
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/politics/27bomb.html
> >
> > You are right that it would take a lot of trucks to move that stuff.
The
> > problem is the area was under satellite surveillance before the war, and
no
> > one saw the trucks moving it then, either.  I'm not insisting that it
was or
> > wasn't moved before the fall of Baghdad.  My point is that absolutely no
one
> > knows when it was taken, or probably ever will know, because no one
checked
> > for months, and the place was not put under guard. The reason given for
not
> > guarding the many dumps full of munitions and explosives that were well
> > known to exist was that "it would have taken 50,000 troops".  Yes, it
would
> > have.  And that was why professionals in the Army kept trying to tell
Mr.
> > Bush that he was not allowing for the manpower he needed to invade Iraq
and
> > control the country properly after he took it.  He didn't listen, and
this
> > is one of many bad consequences of his insistence on pretending this
whole
> > adventure was going to be fast, easy, and relatively inexpensive.  The
Iraqi
> > war was poorly planned and poorly executed.  It was also a war waged for
> > piss-poor reasons, but that is a separate issue.

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