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2003-05-04 Iraq

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Posted by Frank G 2003-05-04 10:16 am|| || Front Page|| [13 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hey Frank, what's the link for Den Beste's article? My quick search came up empty.

We discussed a possible cover-up of WMD finds here at the 'burg back in the middle of April. My position is still that we found AoW complicity and are jabbing them in the side with it. Economic considerations?

Posted by Scott 2003-05-04 11:28:35|| 2003-05-04 11:28:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Looked for a post as requested, but closest thing (maybe I was imagining it) I found was his comments on Daily Pundit:

"What I've been noticing is that a lot of things have been falling off the radar.

There was a story about discovery of a massive underground complex at a nuclear site which hadn't previously been suspected to exist. We got stories about it for a couple of days, and then silence. There was a story about an airfield that was captured which had some sort of bunker complex, then suddenly nothing. There have been several of those, and I've been thinking of going back over my notes and pulling together a collection to post. (Likewise, why haven't we heard anything more about that terrorist training facility SE of Baghdad?)

What I'm wondering is if maybe there may be some sort of news blackout. In other words, it's not so much that they haven't found anything, as that they haven't revealed what they've found for some reason or other. (I can think of several reasons why that might be happening.)"

and:

"By the way, keep in mind that this is the administration which is now famous for keeping silent in the face of rising criticism, and then massively turning the tide on all its critics and making them all look like idiots.

One way or another, it's much too soon to be coming to any kinds of conclusions."
Posted by Steven Den Beste on May 2, 2003 10:08 PM

Posted by Frank G 2003-05-04 11:37:42|| 2003-05-04 11:37:42|| Front Page Top

#3 The left has been slow to bite, since it defies all common sense and logic to come to the conclusion that Sadaam never had the goods. But, don't worry, given enough time the lemmings will eventually make the leap.

I've been giving this much thought, and I think it has to do more to with the same (obscure) reasons that the FBI says: "he is not a suspect" when the boyfriend is caught with the head in his backpack....than it has to do with the fact that the silence is to allow the lemming left enough time to get their courage up to jump off the logic cliff.

However, (and I'm agreeable to being wrong on this point)....but wait...first let me preface my thought.... For a while, I was a "mystery chat" junkie, I followed interesting murder cases. And one thing that you could count on was this: when a reeeally big important fact became public, you could tell it reeeally was important when it disappeared into a black hole. You had to bookmark as Frank G. mentions, because the biggies were always accompanied by absolute silence.

I think what we are seeing here is the same thing. I think the Bush administration has the courage to let the law enforcement side take advantage of the "the right to remain silent". I too don't quite understand it, but I believe that this is all in the same vein.

Ahh...unless you are really interested in this thought..I don't think my post will make much sense.

Posted by Becky 2003-05-04 15:50:37|| 2003-05-04 15:50:37|| Front Page Top

#4 I keep wondering whether Colin in about to give a follow up speech at the UN...drop a "bomb" on France when push comes to shove over lifting sanctions.

Posted by john 2003-05-04 20:36:30|| 2003-05-04 20:36:30|| Front Page Top

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