Do you think the Pentagon is trying to hurt Bush?

[Brotherjohn]

(actual military, not Rummy & gang)

I say this based on the lame "explanations" they have put forth the last two days for the missing explosives.

First, there's the single satellite photo yesterday showing two trucks at Al-Qaqaa. This was said to IMPLY that it's POSSIBLE there was SOME sort of activity at the facility before the invasion. This in response to actual footage of American troop breaking IAEA seals and showing (likely) HDX in the bunkers after the invasion.

Then there's todays press conference bringing some poor sap of a major forward to say that they, well, destroyed SOME weapons... that may or may not have been at Al-Qaqaa... and we didn't break any seals... and we're not even sure what they were.

Such lukewarm "defenses" don't actually HELP Bush at all, do they?

[aden_nak]

1. I believe many of the internal organizations want Bush GONE.

I do believe many of the Pentagon folks outside the PNAC circle know that there are dangerous loonies in charge of things right now, yes. I suspect that group places a lot more faith in all of the Generals and Senior Officials that have criticized BushCo than they do in the Chickenhawk Cheering Squad. And the CIA certainly has no love for Bush at this point, since they ate the blame for 9/11 and Iraq.

Now, I tend to live my life one moment at a time. But I do have a few basic "conceptual" rules that I try to adhere to. One of those would definitely be:

Don't piss off the CIA.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. The Pros are In The House.

The Mighty Wurlitzer is cranking. The path is littered with the bent and broken bodies of rank amateurs, and it's just begun.

[ezekiel333]

11. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

And I do believe the going has gotten weird.


How's things going your way T?

[jobycom]

3. FBI, too, with the Halliburton stuff this morning. nt.

[DrFunkenstein]

9. Payback For Tenet?

Hmm...

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. There are some in the Pentagon who wish this administration had

never been born. This is far far worse and it's getting worst by the minute.... what a mess our country is in... from top to bottom and this clown in the wh is painting everything AOK... nutcase.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=abMgRjfHFB4M&refer=us
Halliburton, headed for five years by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, is the world's largest oil services company and the biggest U.S. contractor in Iraq. Its KBR unit provides housing and meals for troops, runs trucks and delivers mail in Iraq, in addition to working to keep the country's oil flowing.

The March 2003 contract, covering repair of Iraqi oil facilities after the U.S. invasion, ended in January. Halliburton was paid $2.5 billion under that contract and won one of two subsequent contracts awarded by the Corps of Engineers after competitive bids.

KBR's military support services in Iraq and Kuwait, under a contract worth up to $8.2 billion, also came in for criticism yesterday. A Pentagon audit said KBR, also known as Kellogg Brown & Root, could not properly account for 43 percent of the property it manages for the government in Kuwait, including trucks, generators and computers.

[DinahMoeHum]

5. Perhaps. I'm sure many of the regular Pentagon personnel

regard guys like Rumsfeld and his Office of Special Plans people as pantywaist pussies. Shades of McNamara and his "Pentagon Whiz Kids" in the 1960's.


:nuke:

[Bad Thoughts]

6. Proves they are somewhat professional

The military will offer up evidence that makes the case against Bush murky, but they won't fabricate evidence. They are loyal to the president, and they should be loyal to President Kerry.

[Sparkly]

7. Yes -- Pentagon and CIA n/t

[RafterMan]

8. Yes -- the whole bureaucracy is against him

He steamrolled them -- FBI, CIA, uniformed military -- and this is how they fight back.

The spokesman at the pentagon today was a Bushbot, but the major didn't lie or exaggerate for him.

[Harlan James]

10. I have long thought that the institutional powers that be...

have concluded that Bush has got to go.

I expect more bombshells soon.