May 24, 2004
Mark His Words
Brig. General Mark Kimmit's reaction to the surfacing of a videotape seeming to demonstrate that the gathering which the "coalition" bombed the shit out of last week was indeed a wedding party -- "There may have been some kind of celebration. Bad people have celebrations, too." -- is the pull-quote of the day (maybe even of the month).
But check out some of Kimmit's other words of wisdom:
At this point, we have seen really nothing that causes us to change our minds. That's why we need to get as much evidence as possible and hand it to the investigators.
Day after day after day as we continue to get more evidence in ... it is pretty clear to us that what happened that night -- from after midnight to about 0400 -- that the activities that we saw on the ground were somewhat inconsistent with a wedding party.
In other words, at the time it layed the attack the "coalition" had no idea what was going on at the gathering. (Hell, it even claimed, at the time, that it had blown up a suspected safe house for Syrian fighters.)
Hey, asshole: what the fuck happens if the "investigators" corroborate the survivors' and the videotape's account? Do the 45 people you massacred -- including many women and children -- magically come back to life? No? Then why the fuck didn't you gather your evidence before dropping your bombs?
And what the fuck is "somewhat inconsistent" supposed to mean? That it probably was a wedding party, but we can't be 100% sure yet? That the activities were "somewhat inconsistent" for an American wedding party? Maybe that's because it wasn't an American wedding party. Huhn!
What we found on the ground and our post-strike analysis suggests that what we had was a significant foreign fighter 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.
To kill the people of Iraq? The sole purpose? That's the only conceivable purpose for which "foreign fighters" (which even the U.S. military commanders claim to have seen very few of) might enter into Iraq? Not even a stray thought toward attacking the American invaders?
Ooo-kay, dude.
Posted by Eddie Tews at May 24, 2004 06:10 PM
Comments
Not a very popular web page is it? Thats because you sound foolish. What kind of world do you live in? Why dont you move to a socialist country? Thats where you need to be because you hate this country. Do you really think you inspire people when you cant even talk without useing profanity. You sound like the typical liberal,which means you have alot to say and offer no suggestions to make things better. When confronted with facts I bet you just fly off the handle and can never answer a direct question. If everyone in the US was like you we would be invaded and taken over and then you couldnt run your mouth at all.Wake up. -- Posted by: nikki on May 29, 2004 01:06 AM
Frankly that response is a bit silly.
Your 3 kids are out playing in the woods.
Along comes a hunter with his brand new hi tech rifle, hears the noise and looses off half a dozen rounds killing all 3.
Will you say "Ah, an understandable mistake since we know there were animals in the woods too" or will you say "Stupid bastard, imagine shooting before you see a clear target".
The whole point is that this type of military action using even the latest technology still goes all to hell when the intelligence is not right.
WRT your last statement if everyone in the US was like you we wouldn't need to be invaded, we'd all be shooting each other "Just in case" some of us were the enemy.
Sorry, rethink your position on this. Criticism of such tactics is not un-patriotic, it's quite the opposite. We would much rather be killing terrorists than wasting time and ordnance killing harmless people (which then creates more recruits for terrorists).
Charlie -- Posted by: Charlie on May 29, 2004 04:43 AM
I posted my comment here because I could not find anywhere else to post it. It was a general comment about this socialist website not this particular article. Taken that way I guess my comment does sound silly. I should have made myself clear. Every thing I said still stands and I dont need to rethink my position. I still feel the same about socialists but I do agree we need better intel. -- Posted by: nikki on June 8, 2004 11:28 PM