#443...because I *like* airing my dirty bloomers in public...

 "It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt"  ~Thomas Paine

  Once upon a time, in the Hypocritcal land of King Armandt, a
questioning Queen came for a visit; and because she didn't kiss his
combat booted feet and camouflaged arse in the proper order, and
agree with his choice of woolen blinders, (by brazenly voicing a
general warning about the company he keeps at the
altar of his idols...)

The self proclaimed King of (now obvious) Selective Free Speech,
dideth promptly and most pompishly stomp on the now shunned 
and questioning Queen in double time order. 

This then, is how it happened...

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 that looks like an abnormal EKG...

i wonder why george dubya didn't think to inform us of the 338 tons
of unguarded and now, missing explosives....
Comment from floralilia - 10/25/04 10:04 AM

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Flo,

I'm not an Administration spokesman, but I'll take a shot at
your question...

Beside the fact that it wouldn't be the President's job to notify us of that
kind of thing, perhaps the SECDEF or an appointed spokesperson
should be the one doing the informing of that level of information.  
Presidents have more important things to tend to than "play-by-play."

Being as they claim they were notified only in the past month, my
immediate reaction is they didn't announce the information sooner
since they were likely in the throws of an investigation.  Why would
they tip their hat to inform potential bandits that they were coming
under the microscope?

I'm sure the administration would have liked more time to investigate.
(I'm sure they would too - to cover their arse....hey! anyone notice how
many times I've used the word "arse" lately?...)
Certainly, noone expects that any administration has 100%
knowledge of everything going on throughout the battlefield.  
It's unfathomable.

And why would anyone tell anybody they've left anything of value
to the enemy - unguarded?  The site wasn't even a high priority on
the Mission Essential Vulnerable Area list. (niiice..) Not knowing
the full story, I have to think that the military was tending to higher-risk
areas elsewhere. (of course!)

I know.  If we had more people there, this probably wouldn't
have happened
 If the Dems (primarily) hadn't slashed the size of the military,
we'd have more people we could put there.

That damned cause and effect comes back to bite every time.

(why yes, yes it does...)

Comment from armandt - 10/25/04 10:34 AM

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  uh-huh. go ahead, blame the democrats - that's way easier than
holding good ol george to accountability...

i don't know why i was thinking "the buck stops here." silly me.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/v-pfriendly/story/
126699p-113448c.html

ah well, it doesn't matter - it's just considered high explosives
under the bridge, another day of easy pickins for
the insurgents -  c'est la vie, lah de dah..

- it just goes to show, once again, that they were
not as prepared for this war as he and dick hitler
wanted us to believe.  (gasp!)

Comment from floralilia - 10/25/04 4:10 PM

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(stomp)

Flo -

For one, it's not even known if the explosives weren't
moved before the war even started.  Jumping to
conclusions after believing the first thing you hear is
selective ignorance at best. (ya think?)

For another, "Dick Hitler?"  You're comparing Cheney to Hitler?!

That reflects on YOU, not on the Vice-President.

You've got the right to say what you want, but to be that
irresponsible and wreckless with your Freedom - that'snot
the Freedom I fight for.  That's the kind of wrecklessness
I fight against. (?)

Game on.

Comment from armandt - 10/25/04 4:19 PM

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I love it when people jump to conclusions and step on their...
well, on their vulva. (whatever that means...)

NBC News now reports that the "now" missing 380 tons of
explosives at al-Qaqaa were ALREADY missing on April 10,
2003 when US forces arrived (with an embedded NBC news
crew) to secure the facility - only ONE day after the liberation of Iraq.

One day?  That sounds pretty efficient to me.  

If NBC is correct, and if we should have secured those weapons
sooner than one day after Iraq was liberated, then wouldn't
we have had to invade Iraq sooner?  Is that what Kerry
and his lemmings are now telling us?  That we went in too soon,
but we didn't go in soon enough?

Am I the one living in an alternate universe here?!

(well...)



Comment from armandt - 10/25/04 10:33 PM

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 and the key words would be...that's right...

"if" nbc is correct...
Comment from floralilia - 10/26/04 12:00 AM

 

and the grande finale:  (justifying my demise to another journaller)

Tara,

You're comparing apples and oranges.  

No.  I don't support "any" Free Speech. (yes. i see that now)
 It's not a free for all. With all of our Rights come very real
Responsibilities. (yes dad.) There are laws against using one's
Free Speech to yell fire in a crowded theater and against other
forms of un-necessarily inciting mass hysteria. 
(mass hysteria? rolling my eyes)

If you scan through the comments, you'll see someone (me)
refering to the VP as Dick Hitler.  That person later linked
to a page of Hitlerquotes in another comment.  I deleted it.

(I didn't: http://en.thinkexist.com/quotation/Great_liars_are_also_great/170869.html ) 

I wont tolerate someone using my journal to promote Hitler, (promote!?!)
his quotes or their selectively ignorant, irresponsible and ridiculously
unsubstantiated connections between ANY American politician and Hitler.
(how patriotic of him.)

Let me be clear.  I wont tolerate anti-American speech in my Journal. (unless of course, it be Kerry bashing)  They can exercise that Freedom in their own Journal.  (and I am...)

I'll be damned if that kind of speech is going to wrest (http://www.m-w.com)
in my journal! (dammit! pounding his fist on the table.)

Comment from armandt - 10/26/04 6:44 PM

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And so, after the King's last rant, the questioning Queen was then stripped of her Hell Bent for Greatness Award, locked out, and forever and one day banished from the Land of Hypocrisy. The End. No strike that...

It's - And the Queen lived happily ever after,
~The End. 

 and now, a final word from me, regarding those missing 338
tons of explosives...

Dear Mr. President The Buck Stops Here, Commander and Chief,
George Dubya and the puppetmaster Dick Hitler -

The timeline is of no consequence. What is though, is this -
unlike the supposed WMD's - you and the UN already knew about
these (now missing) explosives with certainty before the war - 
you also knew where, what type and quality, what purpose, 
and how much was stored there -

and still you and your intelligent war advisors chose not to make 
this site and probably many others - a top priority - to secure
and safe guard it. 

I guess maybe you all were just meaning to get around to it?  Is that it?

guess what - I don't have to be a war "expert" to see the obvious. 
Hell, you'd get better results consulting a schoolyard full of kids
playing tag for better strategy plays.

And no, this isn't Monday morning quarterbacking from the
peanut gallery - Simply, this is just your bad war planning.  But we'll
never hear your administration admit that now, will we...

God only knows how big this particular iceberg is going to get...
I can't wait to see just how much damage we're all potentially in for...

so yes Mr. President, I believe I have a right to be a little pissy on your
handling of the war.

And yes, I still believe that you were not as prepared for this
war as you and Dick Hitler and the rest of your gang wanted
us to believe you were, going into this.

So don't piss on my back and tell me it's raining. 

Unlike Armandt, I know the difference.