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October 27, 2004

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It's really unbelievable.

Does Bush honestly think people will believe anything he says - even when he invents claims that Kerry criticized the troops when Kerry praised them?

Or is no one actually telling Bush what Kerry says, just giving him a list of talking points to recite?

I do believe that the famous "bulge" is probably just a tailoring problem - but when Bush comes out with stuff like this, I'd like to believe it's an alien blob sitting between his shoulderblades controlling his mind.

If he keeps up like this, I'm going to have to entertain the theory that the bulge is actually Voldemort.

"Does Bush honestly think people will believe anything he says - even when he invents claims . . ."

Yes. And he's right.

Just for the record (since we're getting down to the wire and my sense of humor, at least, is under strain): even if I did think that it was Voldemort under the shirt, I would still accept Bush as my President if he wins, just like I did last time.

"George W. Bush who talks tough and brags about making America safer has once again failed to deliver. After being warned about the danger of major stockpiles of explosives in Iraq, this administration failed to guard those stockpiles – where nearly 380 tons of highly explosive weapons were kept. Today we learned that these explosives are missing, unaccounted for and could be in the hands of terrorists."

This implies that the stockpiles were still there when we took over. As has been noted, there is considerable doubt about that--in fact I would suggest that the current weight of the evidence is well in favor of the idea that the stockpiles were NOT there when the US took over. See Belmont Club, or Michael Totten quoting of all things a CBS report.

Which is why the charges appear 'wild'.

"Make no mistake: our troops are the best-trained and best-led forces in the world, and they have been doing their job honorably and bravely. The problem is the Commander-in-Chief has not being doing his."

You say: "Nowhere in his response does John Kerry blame the troops. On the contrary, he goes out of his way to praise them. He blames President Bush and his administration."

This is a straddle. Bush was not personally involved in securing the site, that was the job of the 3rd Infantry Division and later the 101st Airborne. Contending that they were not competent to find (which they did not) or secure (which they could not because they did not find such explosives) is of course an attack on the troops. You can't just blame the Bush administration, the 3rd Infantry and the 101st were there.

Considering the number of trucks which would have been needed to transport the 377 tons, it is ridiculous to assume that the explosives could have been taken undetected while the roads were closed (which is to say right after the invasion). A more likely explanation (or at the very least equally likely explanation) is that the explosives were taken during the extended run-up to the war. Such run-up was greatly extended by the international community process which Kerry is so fond of.

Let me get this straight: Bush and you, Sebastian, are passing the buck to the troops, and in doing so are accusing Kerry of denigrating our men in uniform and straddling? Am I misunderstanding something here?

To be clear, I mean passing the buck from Bush to the troops, not that you ever had or deserved the buck, Sebastian.

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