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[apocalypsos]

Bush keeps this country safe, which you can tell because there are almost 400 tons of explosives missing from Iraq. But that's okay, because terrorists only needed a pound of this stuff to blow up the plane over Lockerbie and they couldn't possibly know what to do with 760,000 pounds of the stuff.

*sigh* Thank God this election is only a week away from being over.

EDIT: I just have to add that in the last week of an election this close, anybody who believes anything Bush or Kerry say to cajole more votes out of undecided voters is asking for it. I wish we could just muzzle the both of them for the next week and just debate meaningless crap about them, like how cheap it must be every year for Kerry to trick or treat for Halloween when all he has to do is slap on green face paint and moan, or how Bush couldn't come up with something he'd done wrong during his presidency when "Boy, I shouldn't have eaten that pretzel" would have been acceptable.

GLUTTON FOR PUNISHMENT OF EDIT: I have a dare for you all.

Say something nice about the candidate you like least.

And no backhanded compliments. They have to be real compliments. Like for Bush, I'll just say that the man seems to have an easy time making friends. (In that case, I would not be allowed to add that he seems to have just as easy a time making enemies. Because that's too easy. Dude, complimenting a guy you dislike is hard.)

PUPPY OF THE GLUTTON FOR PUNISHMENT OF EDIT: And just so you know, I will call you on it if it's not a real compliment. (Or at least, I'll try to.) "Kerry has great taste in women because Teresa is cool" is okay -- "Kerry has great taste in women because Teresa is rich" is not. "Bush has a good sense of humor" is okay -- "Bush sucks, but his mom is cool" does not.

Comments

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

I may very well still do a write in anyway.

It won't help Bush.
And it won't necessarily harm Kerry.

I can't imagine those 400 lbs of explosives being missing is doing much for the Lemur's approval rating.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Remember, not pounds, tons. Do the math, and it comes out to 760,000 pounds, which just makes it that much worse, since they only needed a pound of the stuff to blow up the Lockerbie plane.

It might not be doing much for Bush's ratings, but then again, I can imagine Bush supporters arguing that hey, the explosives were stolen from Iraq and they are probably still there, so it's not like it affects them. (And then there's the fact that every article I've read so far on the theft has brought up car bombings in Iraq, which is a smooth move if you're just trying to make people think that's all they'll use the explosives for.)

(Edited because, yeah, I can close my HTML. *sigh*)

[hex-16.livejournal.com]

The explosives weren't just lost yesterday... it was in April of 2003. It's a non-story. Old news. The New York Times article that broke this "news" doesn't even bother to mention when it was discovered that the explosives were missing.

Just another meaningless media-driven October surprise.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

What do you mean "meaningless"?

If they were lost in 2003 or they were lost yesterday, they were still lost.

On Bush's watch.

That's a pretty significant bit of information, even if it is late.

In fact, it's worse. The stuff has been missing for over a year and hasn't been found yet.

[hex-16.livejournal.com]

The point I'm making is that the weapons were missing when our troops got there. The press (and John Kerry in the debates) used the fact that we weren't guarding these explosives as proof of the administration's incompetence. But there was nothing there to guard. The explosives flew the coop before we were even there.

[hex-16.livejournal.com]

I'd like to append to my previous post the fact that press also seems to miss a logical implication of this story. If some explosives we knew existed went missing before our troops on the ground got to them, and we still haven't accounted for them, why aren't they speculating that the same thing could have happened to the WMDs Saddam had. Answer: It's inconvenent for them to do so, because they're still playing up the idea that Bush lied about those.

--Hex