Free Major Pearson!!

[annabanana]

This poor guy has been captured by the 'Pub spin machine.. He's doing the best he can, telling what he knows...The babbler keeps putting words in his mouth.

[madmax]

1. Paging John Stewart....

Major good material here for you tonight, lol.

[annabanana]

2. talk about blaming the troops........

They just jacked him up on the scaffold for all of us......This POOR guy!

[Walt Starr]

3. After he asnwered the quesitons honestly

I expect he'll be "reassigned to Guantanamo Bay".

[dogtag]

4. Excuse me for sounding shallow, but why, pray tell,

was the major wearing fatigues? He's at the Pentagon, they didn't just rush him back from Iraq, did they?

[annabanana]

6. I'm sure he asked what to wear......this poor guy

Isn't a press whore. If you were going to be trotted out in front of the press on live TV, wouldn't you ask someone ?

[dogtag]

7. Yep. I think they wanted him to look like a 'grunt' ...

he was told to wear 'work' clothes, IMO.

[venus]

10. Not true.

I worked in the Pentagon and other DoD offices and the warfigters always dressed in uniform.

[HootieMcBoob]

8. That's the basic uniform

Most people in the Army, no matter where you are- office building or not will wear BDUs. Go to the Pentagon sometime and you'll see tons of Army folks walking around in BDUs, that's what they wear. The dress greens that you're thinking about are, in my experience, rarely worn and certainly not on a daily basis. The main uniform for a soldier is the BDU.

[dogtag]

9. Yep, I know they do, but for an important press conference?

[tomfodw]

5. Once again, Bush finds someone to take the bullets meant for him

But we all know what kind of a "strong leader" Bush is, don't we?

Excuse me while I vomit.

[DemsUnited]

11. Agree. Please, DUers, do not diss Major Pierson.

He is a good man who did his job honorably and well in Iraq and continues to do so.

But the bottom line is that he doesn't know exactly what he took or WHERE HE TOOK IT FROM!! He didn't even know he was at Al Qa Qaaa (he called the area something else). He took some weapons (combination of tnt, plastic explosives, other hardware) from part of the complex, but probably not the area that the IAEA said the sealed explosives were located. He did not go into any sealed areas.

Shows a huge lack of planning and foresight at the highest levels. And, typically, the highest levels are leaving it to the Majors to clean up the mess.