The October Surprise appears to be in full swing. First it was the whole-cloth draft-scare stories that continue unabated. Then, in the last couple of days, news that an Army Reserve platoon refused to carry out a fuel-delivery assignment, calling it a suicide mission. Phone calls back home were recorded and sent along to fellow-traveling media. Now "an official document that has surfaced only now" asserts that "The top U.S. commander in Iraq complained to the Pentagon last winter that his supply situation was so poor that it threatened Army troops' ability to fight." Forget that "senior Army officials said that most of Sanchez's concerns have been addressed in recent months." BUSH LIED™ and troops died.
If the person who leaked the letter were concerned about the security of our troops, said person would surely have made the contents of the letter known at the time, back in December of 2003, when public debate and citizen pressure might have been expected to influence policy decisions. Instead, said person waited till the last couple of weeks before the election. Doh. Getting dizzy from the spin.
'Reminds us of how Michael Moore supposedly knew months earlier agout Iraqi prisoner abuses but waited till his film was launched to let us unwashed know:
Filmmaker Michael Moore said Friday he wasn't sure he did the right thing by saving footage of U.S. American soldiers' cruelty toward Iraqis for his controversial documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11,'' instead of releasing the evidence earlier when it might have helped halt such abuse.
"I had it months before the story broke on '60 Minutes,' and I really struggled with what to do with it,'' Moore said in a telephone interview with The Chronicle. "I wanted to come out with it sooner, but I thought I'd be accused of just putting this out for publicity for my movie. That prevented me from making maybe the right decision.''
The footage, eerily similar to film of the atrocities at Abu Ghraib prison, shows GIs laughing as they snap photos of each other putting hoods over Iraqi detainees.
Unintended consequences happen when your worldview posits that the ends (anybody but Bush) justify the means (the sky's the limit).
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