Oops! Major BUSH-SHIT Event Cancelled - Another US accusation proves ill-founded

[kpete]

May 09, 2008
Oops! Another US accusation proves ill-founded

Posted by Helena Cobban at May 9, 2008 12:57 PM

Remember all the 'WMD programs' the Bushites told us there were in Iraq, pre-2003?

So more recently, they've been telling us about the "Iranian arms" that have been flowing in to non-governmental or anti-governmental forces inside Iraq. Last week, the US commanders in Iraq even planned a big "show and tell" event in Karbala at which thousands of Iranian-supplied arms that had been seized by the US and their Iraqi allies would be shown off to the media before being destroyed.

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But guess what. The LA Times's Tina Sussman tells us that the event
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/05/iraq-the-elusiv.html

was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran...


Iran... continues to seethe after an Iraqi delegation went to Tehran last week to confront it with the (arms-supply) accusations. It has denied the accusations, and it says as long as U.S. forces continue to take part in military action in Iraq's Shiite strongholds, it won't consider holding further talks with Washington on how to stabilize Iraq.

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This administration seems to have a just about unique capacity for both belligerence and incompetence. This is an extremely dangerous combination.


http://justworldnews.org/archives/002898.html

[wildbilln864]

1. k&r! nt

[gateley]

2. "canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran..."

I'm surprised that stopped them. I would have thought they'd supply the 'evidence' if needed. (Which is why I was always surprised that no WMD were "found".)

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Wow, We posted the same thought, almost the same words,

at the same time.

OK, mofo. Tell me what I'm thinking RIGHT NOW. (This is a test of DU groupmind telepathy)

[gateley]

14. That's because we

distrust our "leaders" so thoroughly and completely. Assholes. I fucking hate 'em.

[Jackpine Radical]

22. Damn.

You read my mind.
Again.
Quit that.

[spanone]

10. bwahahahaaaa oops!

[habitual]

3. k+r n/t

[Fridays Child]

4. Fox Noise will continue to refer to the event as if it happened, and that's all that matters.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Why did that discovery stop them?

Why not just go ahead, show a bunch of weapons of some kind, & claim they're from Iran? The goddam M$M sure as hell aren't gonna investigate.

[gratuitous]

19. Oooh, and bravely announced in the major media

Er, on the blog of the LA Times. Yep, this will be a major lead story on all the news stations . . . not.

Instead, after about 48 hours of kerfuffle from us dirty fucking hippies, the administration will go right back to telling its lies about who's supplying what in Iraq, and the stenographers in the media pool will take it down and publish or broadcast it without a scintilla of skepticism, and without informing their audiences that it's just so much bullshit.

[davekriss]

24. Exactly

And the wide audience of the exceedingly casual minded will conclude that the U.S. has the proof that Iran has been supplying weapons to Iraqi freedom fighter--um, insurgents--and look the other way when American bombs fly away. Realize that every bomb that goes poof is dollars in the pocket for Bush's base (each exploded bomb will have to be replaced by a new bomb, kaching!).

This is how it's done. "They hate us for our freedoms" "Saddam Hussein is in cahoots with Bin Laden" etc. etc. etc. Sand in the eyes of the sheeple public as they redirect current and future tax dollars into the hands of their priviledged few.

[madmom]

36. Probably because the "Made in the USA" was to big to hide, that's why this damn

war is costing so much, we're suppling both sides!

[Marr]

7. So where *did* the weapons come from?

It seems unlikely that they'd cancel the propaganda event just because the weapons weren't actually Iranian. Am I being paranoid if I suspect the weapons may have originated from one of the "allies" of the Bush Administration?

[Hydra]

9. That's more likely in this case

The fact that the evidence wasn't credible never stopped them before(Iranian IEDs anyone?).

I think you called it correctly. Our weapons shipments to the insurgents must have gotten seized by accident, and since the people who were doing the seizing din't know about the "approved arms", they went ahead and did what they always do.

What a faux pas :evilgrin:

[Jackpine Radical]

20. Well, Jesus, so the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung finds out

that the weapons came from, like Israel or something...think anybody in the US would ever hear about it? We still got lots of people who think that the only reason we didn't find the WMD is they all got spirited off to Syria or something.

[Hydra]

25. I share your view on the matter

Frankly, I'm surprised Bushco didn't fly a nuke factory and one of our working nukes in during the invasion and plan it under one of Saddam's palaces, or even simply claim that they found them and were currently disassembling them and disposing of them "as we speak."

Something must have happened, though, for them to cancel the press conference and admit that the weapons were not Iranian. Weird.

[Jackpine Radical]

27. Maybe they couldbn't find a way to get the focus group

to buy their story. I don't know. I don't think I hqve any idea anymore what goes on in the head of the average American.

[riderinthestorm]

31. No Judith Miller to plant the story? An anti-Judith Miller was going to be there?

I'm guessing someone who knew details about things, really knew shit, was going to show up. Iraq has gotten to be such a wild thing that they can't really control who's there and who's not. There was going to be person who was a wild card there in my opinion, someone who would call the bluff.

Find out who was scheduled to attend that press conference and you'll know why it was cancelled.

[DramaOnHwy61]

47. interesting. Do you have a link?

I scoured all of FAZ.NET but couldn't find anything about this.
Thanks for helping.

[electropop]

11. They realized some gun nut would recognize them as US-made.

And gun nuts are the GOP base.

[juno jones]

37. In vietnam

a huge number of VC arms were captured and/or illegally sold american weapons. I do not doubt the same thing is happening now.

[ekwhite]

38. I was thinking the same thing.

They must have come from an ally of the Bush administration, or they would have been all over it. Perhaps they were even US arms.

[pansypoo53219]

40. probbly al qa qa

and shit would hit the fan.
yeah right. THANKS GNEWS.

[formercia]

8. They must have read DU

and realized everyone was calling bullshit on the story. :rofl:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

12. *Gasp* You mean they were feeding us BS?

That seems to be the staple of the ChimpCo war machine.

[VP505]

13. None came from Iran?

Guess they didn't have time to get them re-labeled!

[Bucky]

15. Shame on you, Kpete

Don't you know that by reporting facts, you're destroying America's credibility around the world?

[kpete]

17. thanks

happy to oblige whenever i can, kp

[liberal N proud]

16. Do you suppose the talking heads will be discussing this evening?

My bet is on a missing girl in Aruba, we haven't heard anything from that lately.

[Canuckistanian]

18. Soo... I'm guessing we won't hear about this on Faux

Just a wild guess.

[malaise]

21. Not a word on cable. No surprise

:puke:

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

23. I suppose the manufacturers' are covered under "national security" shit, huh.

:eyes:

[onethatcares]

26. but the numero uno AQ guy got captured, but

it wasn't really the numero uno guy, just some guy with a name that sounded similar to the numero uno guy. Good thing we aren't at war with Mexico, do you realize how many Rodriguez-Hernando-Gomez names sound the same? Jeez, the next thing you know, everyone from there would be on the "no fly list".:crazy:

and don't take this wrong, i'm poking the government thought process if there is one. :)

[SalmonChantedEvening]

28. No Show n Tell?

No flight deck?

No crates stamped 'Made in U.S.A.'?

No Pigfarm Podium moment?

No dancin'?

No artist's renderings of stuff?

No Photo-Optafyin'?

Jeepers, not even a slice of Yellow Cake.

Awwwwwwwwww.

[libodem]

29. What about the dates that were stamped on them?

What a bunch of jackasses.

[GetTheRightVote]

30. to funny, no wmds from Iran, when did this happen last, let me thing....

[Usrename]

32. I'm SHOCKED!

ok, I'm not

[PuraVidaDreamin]

33. I hope this gets 200PLUS rec's

Why isn't this plastered all over corporate main stream media?
Cheney will have his way with Iran before his term expires-

[brindis_desala]

34. The US and Iran are both conning their constituents.

Neither want the Iraqi nationalists to emerge as the country's leaders. If so the world would see that the Sunni Shiite "split" in Iraq is largely a fraud. The threats against Iran are to insure they keep backing Nuri al Maliki the puppet of choice.

[pjt7]

35. Is there any chance Russia

is providing these arms?

Payback for our arming of the Afghans 1980-93.

[Zambero]

39. Are these particular WMD's Weapons of Mass Distraction?

Or Deception?

[lonestarnot]

41. Just about the most ignorant bunch I've ev er run across and they are running/ruining our country!

[L0oniX]

42. Don't ever expect anything but lies from our leaders er I mean deceivers.

:evilgrin:

[bhikkhu]

43. I've mailed this to media, with reminders of their complicity in the Iraq war

Can others do the same?

The media has told us so many times now that Iranian weapons are killing our soldiers it is virtually common knowledge...and now the one opportunity the administration staged to present evidence has NOTHING to show.

Anyone with a good list of media emails? It is easy to sit around and say they aren't giving it any play, but much more satisfying to light a fire under them with good cause.

[navarth]

44. BIG kick!

[Terri S]

45. And this kind of thing gets buried in a blog

rather than the front page. If the media spent as much time reporting on the crimes of this administration as they do pastors and lapel pins and the like, we might actually get an informed electorate.

[MilesColtrane]

46. They should have just "found" Ahmadinejad's laptop.

Virtual evidence is so much easier to manufacture than meatspace evidence.

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