The Final Nail in Bush's Coffin

[Nancy Waterman]

The breaking story from Josh Marshall will be the end of Bush. This story is huge!!

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/

Despite pressure from DOD to keep it quiet, the IAEA and the Iraqi Interim Government this month officially reported that 350-tons of dual-use, very high explosives were looted from a previously secure site in the early days of the US occupation in 2003. Administration officials privately admit this material is likely a primary source of the lethal car bomb attacks which cause so many US and Iraqi casualties.

[lil-petunia]

1. oh damn. you were speaking figuratively. Oh well.

my mistake

[NewYorkerfromMass]

19. at Skull & Bones you just lie down in them

never heard of them being lidded and nailed shut though. :)

[wellstone_democrat]

2. From your keyboard to God's ear...

let us hope.

[skylarmae]

3. I've heard this nail in the coffin thing before - I wonder what, if any-

thing will wake these people up. We have to win this election and help John restore our Country, in spite of these asses.

[Nancy Waterman]

5. I have heard it before too but this seems enormous

A direct link between Bush's incompetence and the death and destruction in Iraq and all the deaths of US soldiers. Plus a coverup. The main thing is to get it on the media. This is the October Surprise. Bush can't survive this. It is way too clear and easy for everyone to "get".

[cavanaghjam]

11. That assumes

it makes it to media which seem far more concerned with the same old horse-race handicapping and other speculation with which their lazy asses are so very at ease. A few hundred emails to specific newsreaders at the major outlets may get the staff to include SOMETHING but don't get your hopes up.

[harpo]

17. we need more nails...don't stop now!!!

[jefferson_dem]

4. This is some "not right" shit. Botched war. Dead troops. DoD cover up.

I've never been this mad, and i've been pretty darn mad (for whatever that's worth). These bastards need to go down, and hard.

[Chicago Democrat]

6. This is amazing ,,,, So Hakim was killed with this stuff? What

about the UN bombing?

WE GOTTA KNOW! CAUSE THESE BUSH FAILURES COST LIVES!

[Gyre]

7. There will be no "end of Bush".

That fuck's gotten caught doing everything immoral and illegal except playing w/interns and it hasn't stuck to him because of the media and the american 30 second attention span. This is just more of the same.

Gyre

[deadmessengers]

9. Oh yes, there will be.

And it'll be on January 20th, 2005 when President John Kerry takes the oath of office.

[harpo]

18. right on!!

[shanti]

21. to sexually repressed fundies

sex is obscene and war is not. go figure. but this story concerns me right before the election. we all know that a cornered rat will bite, and they are becoming moreso by the minute.

[Carla in Ca]

23. Then lets demand impeachment!

From the rooftops, the streets, in emails and phone calls.

[Roon]

8. I know you all hate Drudge..

but he has a teaser up about the NYT carrying this story tomorrow. Perhaps this will be bigger than we thought.

[cliss]

10. This is incredible, if true.

350 tons?? I'm having a tough time even visualizing this. This would be like an entire warehouse, cleaned out by looters.

And the article says "PREVIOUSLY secure site". What does this mean? That US soldiers quit protecting the explosives. They got distracted? Or the worst of all possible scenarios......they..I'm having trouble saying it: they WANTED the Iraqis to get it?

OMG, think of the implications. Bush is directly responsible for the deaths of his own soldiers.

Of all the threads I've read here, this is one of the scariest.

[shraby]

13. I think it was a UN secured site. The UN was

run out just before we invaded.

[Stephanie]

12. Earlier discussion here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1157376

[baltodemvet]

14. It's Worth Repeating

It's by no means the first such revelation but now's the time to give it play. We need to go for the throat on this.


Bush's bungling invasion of Iraq has made us LESS safe and wasted American lives. How many of our troops were killed by weapons which we could have--SHOULD have--secured?

Make sure all your local and national 'media outlets' hear about this!

[Stephanie]

15. Bush guarded the Oil Ministry, but not the KNOWN Nuclear Sites

Those sites went unguarded for weeks and were completely looted. The stolen materials could easily have been sold on the black market. Bush REFUSED to allow the IAEA to inspect the nuclear sites after the invasion to determine if anything was missing, or to, ahem, search for WMD's.

[onenote]

16. what's truly amazing

is not just that we let 350 TONS of explosives "walk", its that we have so little support/intelligence on the ground that we haven't found it. Its not like you can hide 350 tons of anything under a bed.

onenote

[foo_bar]

20. try a wooden stake

[mitchum]

22. I got REALLY EXCITED when the last two words jumped out at me

Damn :)

[Davis_X_Machina]

24. The Master Narrative...

...only allows military figures at the rank of Brigadier General or lower, or civilians at the rank of Assistant Secretary or lower, to fuck up.

The scapegoat selection committees have already met, the selections have already been named.

The victims will be fed to the press on Wednesday. The press, if it bothers to cover the story at all, will, like an anaconda, swallow the scapegoats whole and sleep for a month.

Remind me again: who lost their job over Abu Ghraib?