Wednesday, November 01, 2006

The Things That They Hide

I don't usually read Wonkette, it's a good read, but it's usually too gossipy for my taste, and who has time to read every blog out there? My partner reads Wonkette daily, and today she found something that I found interesting and terribly frightening.

We know that the Administration is lying about the seriousness of the situation in Iraq. I was at work last week, and in the break room, people were watching BBC News. There were pictures of explosions, and clouds of smoke over what the commentator described as an American military base not far from Baghdad. The next morning I looked for a story to explain the images I had seen, and I could find nothing.

But read Wonkette's post from today and ask yourself why the Pentagon is asking for an emergency $50 billion to fly bodies home from Iraq. How much does it cost to fly a body? And why $50 billion? Are there that many, or is this something that they are anticipating?

And what really happened at Falcon Forward Base?

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