Bush takes his August vacation in Plausible Denial. Hello Bifecta..

[TruthIsAll]

We KNEW something would happen. Time to get away from the blackout. Time to get away from the Baghdad bombing.

FirstEnergy KNEW. Did Bush? At least it happened right after the market closed. Good timing.

Chalabi KNEW. Did he warn Bush? Did he warn the U.N.? Will anyone at the U.N. ask why not? Will just one reporter?

This should rally the world around Bush. Just like 9/11. Now we need a coalition of the drilling to get those Al Qaeda's. This is the "proof" Bush needed of the Saddam/Al Qaeda link.

The next product to market will be those pesky WMDs. Coming to a theater near you in September, soon after Labor Day, maybe to be announced on 9/11.

Except this time, Bush may not see the rating spike. May need another product.

[Rex]

1. Watched Nightline tonight

the spin is that the UN employed Iraqis to guard the area and were the so called security for the building. Now, I'm not sure who is telling the truth, but I could have sworn that I read the day after the attack that the cement truck blew past TWO US CHECKPOINTS, MANNED BY US SOLDIERS. I'll look for the article, but only one of them can be true - either it was Iraqis or it was US soldiers guarding the building.

[NYC]

2. Both could have been guarding the building.

The interesting thing is that U.S. is making it sound as though the U.N. hired dangerous Iraqis to guard the building.

If so, why were dangerous, untrustworthy Iraqis available for hire? The U.S. has been in Iraq for 5 months. If these particular Iraqis were dangerous &/or untrustworthy, why didn't the U.S. warn the U.N.?

[Rex]

3. Good point

I went looking but can't find the article I was thinking about. However, from the various articles I'm looking at now it appears that the FBI has determined that it was a Russian made flatbed truck called a KAMAZ

with a huge, 500 pound 70's era Soviet made bomb strapped to the bed. Various other munitions were placed helter skelter around it. Now I begin to wonder - how could anyone not see the bomb as the truck drove up towards the building? Was this what people saw and mistakenly assumed it was a cement truck? A 500-pound bomb on the back of a flatbed truck? I'm sorry, but even the most dense security force would have noticed it wasn't a cement truck, and that a HUGE BOMB was strapped down to the bed of the truck!

It defies belief!

[Ouabache]

4. but to be fair couldn't you place munitions in the center of that bed and

then stack bags of cement around it ? Maybe it was something tricky like that.

[Rex]

5. Now that would make sense

Afterall, they had just built a cement wall around the area that was hit (I guess for protection) and maybe the truck looked just like all the other construction vehicles? Wouldn't stacking bags of cement around the munitions dampen somewhat the blast of the 500-pound bomb?

[NYC]

6. How about cement bags

filled with explosive materials (after removing the cement)? Could have been that, perhaps.