You know, the government had everything going just fine in their scramble to pass the buck on the missing explosives. Both Bush and Rumsfeld insisted the explosives were probably removed before U.S. forces even got there.
And then, miraculously, the Pentagon (Rumsfeld's stomping ground) produced a photo of some trucks parked next to a building before the invasion, and suggested the explosives might have been moved out then.
Phew. Political crisis averted.
Never mind that the building the trucks were parked next to wasn't likely the one holding the explosives. Never mind the lack of any pictures actually showing any explosives being removed. Never mind the fact that Bush forced the inspectors out of Iraq who were tracking the explosives to begin with. And never mind the explosives are still missing. Bottom line, hey, it's not their fault.
Then, oops, ABC produces video of U.S. forces examining the explosives after the invasion.
Oh, ummm...Did we say they were removed before the invasion? No, wait, here's a GI who, though he isn't an explosives expert or anything, can tell you yes, they did remove a bunch of stuff and destroyed it. Some of it may have even been a small portion of the missing explosives.
OK. But the fact still remains that our leaders were all prepared to feed us a bunch of BS about the explosives being gone before the invasion even begun. Yet again, both Bush and Rumsfeld appear pathologically incapable of taking responsibility for any mistakes, let alone focusing on necessary action rather than political butt-covering.
And even if Bush and Rumsfeld believed the explosives were not in Iraq before the invasion (similar to the way they believed the WMDs were), then why are they so ignorant of what's actually going on?
And if U.S. forces really had destroyed all the explosives (which they probably didn't), why don't they know whether they did or didn't? Why was it only after ABC released its video that someone was brought forward to say that maybe, possibly, they blew some of the explosives up?
If not for ABC, Bush and team would have spun yet another fable about weapons in Iraq to the American people, and we would have been none the wiser. Now, if only they could find a videotape showing that, despite Bush's claims of fighting a war on terror, bin Laden is still alive and free.
Oh, wait, that's right, they did.
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