What we must remember about today's "explosive" press conference

[Atman]

ABC's Nightline, on the night this first broke, devoted their show to this story. George Snuffleupagus was the moderator, and the conclusion to show was an admission by the parties involved that the GOP's goal was to MUDDY THE WATERS, make this story so confusing that no one would really know what to believe. In doing that, the Bush faithful would be able to brush it off as Bush-bashing, and the Bush-haters will simply have more fuel, but probably not win over a single person.

They are staying on point. This press conference, if you really are dumb enough to still support Bush, was so confusing and rambling that it is unlikely to change anyone's mind. They SUCCESSFULLY muddied the waters as planned. Just keep that in mind. We may be amazed at the train wreck that we saw, but it was likely a controlled train wreck to keep the masses baffled.

[cspiguy]

1. They are trying to refute the central charge - that * did not guard the

depot. By saying that there was a specific unit ordered to collect up and destroy munitions from Al Qaa-Qaa, they can imply that there was a responsible plan and it was implemented by our armed forces - regardless of other inconvenient facts.

[DemsUnited]

2. Don't believe they can muddy the waters on this one at all.

The ABC video clearly shows that there were unguarded, IAEA sealed bunkers with massive amounts of RDX and other explosives. On a lark, a couple of solders, a reporter & a cameraman waltzed in, cut IAEA seals, poked around and then left the facility as accessible to insurgents as when they got there.

THIS IS UNDISPUTED! I don't care if the army took some of the material away on the 13th. I don't care if they came back the day after the ABC video and blew the rest of it to hell. There shouldn't have been a single second where this well-known site was unsecured, as it clearly was on April 18th.

Unplanned, mismanaged, under-resourced war by the highest levels who then leave it to the Major Piersons to clean up the mess.