Wedding Party Massacre? Doubtful.....

"Jim Yanik" wrote in message
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"Kevin Brooks" wrote in
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"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




Face reality;you or anyone else here is not going to convince
Mr.MacEachern
of anything favorable to the US. His mind is made up regardless of any
facts to the contrary.

True, but letting him get away with his "rewriting" of Kimmet's quotes
through judicious snippage and inaccurate/incomplete paraphrasing does not
serve much purpose, either. Isn't he the transplanted Canuck? If so, one
wonders why, if he is so disgusted with his nation, as he makes clear at
every opportunity, he doesn't just pack up and head back home?

Brooks

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Jim Yanik
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