"Scott MacEachern" wrote in message
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"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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Never heard of terrorists using such equipment, eh?

Right. Al-Qaeda: The Musical....

Looks like BG Kimmet has drawn very different conclusions from what you
have, Scott. And if you are going to quote the guy, at least do so by
paraphrasing his entire statement.

How about today, then, from the briefing transcript: "...But I would
tell you that, again, day after day after day, as we continue to get
more evidence in, as we continue to get more new evidence coming in,
it is pretty clear to us that what happened that night from the --
about after midnight until about 0400 -- that the activities that we
saw happening on the ground were somewhat inconsistent with a wedding
party. And it could well have been, as we have said before, that
there was some sort of celebration going on. ..."

You conveniently missed the PICTURE that showed the rocket launchers, and
rounds these "wedding party" folks were found with? Hell of a wedding
gift..."Oh, honey, look! It's that RPG-7 we were hoping to get!"

And all of those *Sudanese* attendants..heck of along way to travel for a
wedding in those parts...


"...somewhat inconsistent with a wedding party...."

Yeah. There's a ringing statement of confidence.

How about his quote: "But at this point, we have seen really nothing that
causes us to be -- to change our minds."

Or: "We have found no evidence of any children being killed, by people on
the ground. We had a ground force element that went through the objective.
It did not identify any children killed. And so this, again, is part of
what needs to be determined by an unbiased investigation. And that's
exactly what we're taking forward." (This has been your pet peeve, right?
The alleged butchering of children?)

Or: "But the intelligence that we had, that got us there, what we found on
the ground and our post-strike analysis suggests that what we had was a
significant foreign-fighter waystation, smuggler waystation in the middle of
the desert that was bringing people into this country for the sole purpose
of attacking to kill the people of Iraq. We have a responsibility to
maintain a safe and secure environment. That is our responsibility, that is
our obligation, and we will carry that out."

Again, a bit different from the version of Kimmet's words you keep
parroting.

Brooks


Scott