July 21, 2003 October is Koufax Pledge Drive month

Bush's moth-eaten security blanket

I haven't chimed in on the YellowCakeGate fiasco much, as others have been handling the story with much more energy and competence than I could ever hope to these days. But this quote in the Washington Post this morning made me feel oh so secure:

Hussein is alive but in hiding, and his alleged stocks of chemical or biological weapons or agents have not been found. Meanwhile, the president and other leaders have yet to mention publicly the intelligence assessment that Hussein may be a potentially bigger threat now than before the United States attacked.
The whole Pincus article is just one more piece of damning evidence against the credibility of this Administration.

Of course, the fact that there's still a missing African jetliner and now 1500 pounds of ammonium nitrate (a portion already mixed with fuel oil) stolen from two construction companies in Colorado and California is even more reassuring. Yes, I feel really secure these days.

Posted by MB at July 21, 2003 06:38 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Ammonium nitrate? Cool. More bangs for your buck, unless you *really* want to use it as fertiliser.

Posted by: Larry Lurex at July 21, 2003 09:39 AM

What missing African airplane?

And why does the world seem like a bad Tom Clancy novel all of a sudden?

Posted by: kevin at July 21, 2003 01:26 PM

My take: the Times is refusing to commit, but the Post is out for blood, sacrificing political capital on all sides. They smell another Watergate.
It makes them fun reading. CNN also seem to have crossed the Rubicon.

Posted by: John Isbell at July 21, 2003 01:36 PM

Kevin, this missing Angolan 727.

Posted by: MB at July 21, 2003 01:39 PM

Larry, if they really want to use it for fertilizer, they're going to have to figure some way of removing the diesel fuel already mixed in. It was stolen from construction companies which planned on using its explosive qualities, not its "nutrient" ones.

Fortunately, it's still less than half the amount used in the OKC bombing (4800lbs), but who knows if it will be combined with other previous stolen quantities (there were over 1400lbs stolen last year as well.) But, it could just be someone who needed it for construction purposes, and didn't want to purchase it.

Posted by: MB at July 21, 2003 01:44 PM