Sometime around Sun, 06 Jul 2003 21:12:41 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> scribbled on a rock and threw this into
cyberspace:

scroff a écrit :

Sometime around Sat, 05 Jul 2003 15:38:04 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> scribbled on a rock and threw this into
cyberspace:

Mike T a écrit :

Trust Is Important

Charley Reese

Five and a half days after a U.S. strike against a convoy of vehicles on the
road near the Iraq-Syria border, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
the secretary of defense claimed they had no details of the action.

That's not believable.

BTW, why don't you read the source instead of reading assholes that have
no clue. Don't rely on pseudo big boys (fat assholes like tempest?) who
rely solely on propaganda.

This is what what said during the last Pentagon briefing:

Q: Mr. Secretary, could you provide additional details since we last
talked to you about the June 18th episode near the Syrian border, in
terms of what you know now about the role of the Syrians, and how they
came to be involved and how many people were killed, that sort of thing?

Rumsfeld: I can try. I'm sure there are people that -- Larry can get
precise details and ***** can calibrate me, but the five Syrians were
wounded; they were treated; they're all back in Syria. There were
something like 20 people captured, and some 17 were immediately
released, and I don't know the disposition of the other two or three.

Ok, 'something like' 20 people captured isn't good enough. But lets do
some math, you're a newkewler scientist/microbyologest, help me out

Molecular biologist, not that it is any of your business, this is
irrelevant to my formation.

here. 20 captured - 'some' 17 released = two or three... where are the
five we injured and took into custody?? The attack took place on the
night of June 18, on June 25 'officials' were still saying;

""We don't have enough detail now to discuss the issue," he said of
the incident, in which U.S. troops took custody of five Syrian border
guards -- three of them injured -- and have not yet turned them back
over to Syria."

Let's do some more math.... 25 - 18 = 7, right?

Any dimwit can make the math.

Doesn't seem like you did. Mike T wrote that five and a half days
after the incident the sec of state and the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff had no details of the action. He said that was
unbelieveable, or rather not believable, to wit... *****.
You come back with some crap about reading "the source instead of
reading assholes that have no clue. Don't rely on pseudo big boys (fat
assholes like tempest?) who rely solely on propaganda." Then you post
the sec of def in a press conference (where he still dosen't know
much), and it's June 30, 12 days later. Who has no clue? Lets do some
more math, shall we? 12 days - 5.5 days = 6.5 days later you idiot.

They aren't in custody so they are released. Or they escaped. Or they
are dead.

They were returned June 30, the day of your press conference with sec
of state dumsfeld

U.S. Returns Detained Syrian Border Guards-Syria
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=5SKWLFPZYZ4EICRBAEKSFFA?type=topNews&storyID=3012013

So when was this pentagon briefing you're talking about?

Last briefing. got to http://www.cspan.org and click on [Sec. Rumsfeld &
Gen. Myers Pentagon Briefing on Operation Sidewinder (06/30/2003)]

J.