Pentagon responds to HMX video/ pictures

[jezebel]

from noted now:http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/NotedNow/story?id=156246

PENTAGON REACTION FROM SPOKESMAN LARRY DiRITA: "We know there were other units in the area who acknowledged finding explosives. It's not at all clear what's in the photos indicate. Some Explosive Ordinance Destruction units have a recollection that some high explosives in the area were taken out of there."


Can anyone figure out what the hell he is saying?

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Their best hope hope now is just to confuse things

Muddy the waters.

[jezebel]

3. That's why the video needs to be on every channel, people can see it with

their own eyes.

[YEM]

2. Sounds like in some strange way...

They are covering there ass.

[xultar]

4. I recall there was some sand there also. WTF..n/t

[jefferson_dem]

5. What the fuck is that piece of ambiguous illiteracy?

"It's not at all clear what's in the photos indicate."? That's not even proper English.

Explosive were taken out of where, and by what whom?

[tjdee]

6. We don't know that these are the MISSING explosives.

Is basically what they're saying.

They're saying that there were "other units in the area" who found explosives, but the pictures are unclear on which area of Al-QaQaa these explosives were in.

Uh, I think.

[Devils Advocate NZ]

7. Excuse number 5?

First it was "They were removed by Saddam before the war"

Then it was "The Russians removed them before the war"

Then it was "Besides there was only 3 tons of the stuff found in the last IAEA inspection"

Then it was "See, here are a couple of trucks, which we admit are not outside the actual bunkers in question, but it proves there was some activity in the complex before the war"

Then it was "Of course we can't blame the president for this, it was the soldiers fault!"

Now it is "Ok, so there WAS some explosives in the complex after the war, and those explosives are now missing, but some EOD units recall taking some explosives out of that area for disposal - what? What do you mean why didn't we say that to begin with? Cause we only just made it up! Duh!!"