More Bush lies
This one is good, as Scott McClellan contradicts himself:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/10/20041025-1.html
"another nearly 163,000 tons of munitions have been secured and are on line to be destroyed."
"and have another nearly 363,000 on line to be destroyed."
But this one's better:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/10/20041025-6.html
Bush in Colorado today:
"Now my opponent is throwing out the wild claim that he knows where bin Laden was in the fall of 2001, and that our military passed up the chance to get him in Tora Bora. This is an unjustified criticism of our military commanders in the field. (Applause.) This is the worst kind of Monday-morning quarterbacking. (Applause.) And that's what we've come to expect from Senator Kerry."
Wild claim? Well you and your intelligence officials thought it was so in April of 2002. Why is it now a wild claim?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A62618-2002Apr16¬Found=true
To quote The Guardian, "John Wilkes-Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr, where are you now that we need you?"
That bit about military commanders in the field is a bit much, I'm pretty certain our people in country would give their eye teeth to have a chance at Bin Ladin. It was the brass in D.C. (not even brass, Rummy et al.) that calls the shots about how many troops and where. The criticism is targeted at the civilian leadership, not at the field commanders.
What's the chance of having another Sec. of Def. that's as myopic as McNamara?