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Monday, the Bush administration downplayed the threat posed by the missing explosives and tried to shift the responsibility for safeguarding them to the Iraqi military. White House spokesman Scott McClellan pointed to the "more than 243,000 [tons of] munitions" already destroyed by U.S. forces. "The sites now are really ... the responsibility of the Iraqi forces," he added.

What's left unstated here is the fact that the U.S. is supposed to have trained / be training the Iraquis. Or didn't you remember that little factoid, Mr. McClellan? It's part of those billions and billions of US citizens' tax dollars you're not spending at home, or putting towards balancing the budget, remember?

Out. Out of my (oval) office! I don't want to clean up all your lying, misleading detritus when we take the oath in January '09.

Asshats, begone!

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But when W and his spin patrol make it a point of saying "We've got X Iraqi troops/police/national guard trained, and will have Y troops trained by Z date" to make themselves look good, to then turn around and denigrate those same folks when something that makes the administration look -bad- comes to light.

Ok, this I will not disagree with at all. Course, my bitter cynical ass would expect *ANY* administration to do the exact same thing.

Make no mistake...I'm not a Bush supporter. But I'm no more so for Kerry, either. I have issues with both. I just don't like to see people's problems with one or a few of the top-level leaders get dumped down onto the grunts who're just trying to get impossible missions accomplished. *SIGH*