With UK troop withdrawals having begun on Monday and the President speculating doing the same thing, you have to ask the question.
What would Iraq be like if straight after the end of the invasion in 2003, forces had withdrawn to a nominal peacekeeping force and the Iraqi army hadn't been disbanded?
Tell The Truthiness ; The US tried to prevent majority Shias getting control over the country, like the makeup in nearby Iran, but with Iraq being around 60% Shia, didn't they know the outcome before the invasion?
It feels like President Bush has just two places he travels to these days, one is New Orleans, the other is Baghdad.
He stopped at Al-Asad airbase in the Anbar area of Iraq, on his way to Australia and following an eight hour meeting with army officials he said he might say something we've all been hoping for, sometime in the future.
If security improves (he's been told it has) at the rate it has, he may be considering bringing troops home.
Tell The Truthiness ; We'd love to know how the British Basra pullout yesterday influenced this statement? Is it like dominos, one goes, the rest follow straight after?
Yesterday's British withdrawal of troops from Basra Palace to a base at the airport has been defended as "not a defeat" by most of the UK government and anyone who's been asked from the Ministry Of Defence.
But for many, the very action of removing these troops shows that the pull-out of the vast majority of UK forces is in "all but word" a defeat.
A former Foreign Office offical said there has been no coalition control over Southern Iraq for two and a half years.
Tell The Truthiness ; Mr Bush, are your shoulders slightly colder now that Prime Minister Gordon Brown is standing some distance away?
For those of our visitors who live in North America, or anywhere else that can receive the MSNBC channel, there's going to be a Special Comment on Countdown With Keith Olbermann on MSNBC tonight at 8pm Eastern Daylight Time.
Some may say we are not presenting a balanced view of news by posting video's of Mr Olbermann's Special Comments. But we are not a real news site, we do not claim to be a national news source, most of which are nowhere near as 'fair and balanced' as they claim. As a result these videos and the opinion of this site sets out to redress that balance which has swung since 2001 and 9/11 hugely in favour of Mr Bush's administration and does not hold them to account.
Those of you who have never seen one of these Special Comments, here's his best:
Tell The Truthiness ; We'll post part of the transcript up later, when it becomes available on MSNBC's News Hole website.
General Sir Mike Jackson called the US post-war policy "intellectually bankrupt" in a UK newspaper interview on Saturday. Mr Jackson is the head of the British Army.
He added that US policy in terms of strategy was "short-sighted". The real bombshell was him talking about former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who was "one of the most responsible for the current situation".
Tell The Truthiness ; He also said disbanding of the Iraqi Army was a mistake. We were waiting for him to say that they should have just kept Saddam. At least now the naked truth is coming out, at last.
Three men onboard an American Airlines flight from San Diego to Chicago were viewed with suspicion by fellow passengers as they began to speak Arabic. So much so that a mother caused the plane to return to the gate and be let off.
By this time it was too late to takeoff due to the aiport's night flight curfew. The flight was rescheduled for the morning.
Tell The Truthiness ; A UK European MP who has been viewed with suspicion while travelling, who is Asian in appearance has dubbed this 'travelling whilst Asian', perhaps since the men on this flight were Iraq citizens travelling to train soldiers at a US Army camp, the phrase, 'travelling whilst Iraqi' should be coined?
Does everyone who boards an aircraft as a passenger leave all common sense on the ground?
After being treated like a leper by the GOP, Senator Larry Craig resigned this lunchtime.
Tell The Truthiness ; He didn't help himself by pleading guilty to start with when he has since admitted that he didn't do anything wrong. So why do it?
So, as expected, the Republicans demonstrated their infantile treatment of an unfortunate situation and made sure Senator Larry Criag resign today. That action is due at 12.30pm Eastern Time.
Tell The Truthiness ; Other parties in the US and around the World are able to understand those members who are or may be gay, why do the Republicans make their attitude towards these situations so uncaring?
Despite the unprofessional conduct of some of the newscasters at MSNBC, see our previous blog for that episode, we still endorse Keith Olbermann's Countdown programme, giving the news the perfect satirical treatment with this gem.
Keep in mind while you watch this that the words of the police report have not been changed, which begs the question, how much more is Sentaor Larry Craig not revealing?
Tell The Truthiness ; Senator, the floor is yours, speak up!
We all know good media should be objective, balanced, professional and fair.
What the heck is going on then when two newscasters laugh, live on-air at another newscaster's story of beating someone up in college?
Tell The Truthiness ; Tucker Carlson issued a statement saying he actually, with the assistance of his friend, held the man, before campus security arrived. If this was the case, why did he give a different story on air?
The antics of Senator Larry Craig, especially this bizzare and oddly entertaining statement, seem to be gripping the media.
Along with a completely unrelated thought, this clip of Little Britain springs to mind and watching Larry Craig's one after the other, you can see some unsettling parallels.
Tell The Truthiness ; I am not gay, I want everyone to know that, is that clear? Not that there's anything wrong with that! But I'm not gay, did I say that and did you hear it clearly? Just to make it clear...
Mr Karl Rove may have left this week, but this weekend, another member of Bush's team is also bidding farewell.
Tony Snow, the White House Press Secretary has announced his immediate resignation from the administration.
His reason for departing?
Not his cancer, which is being treated.
Nor any difference in political policy.
He's leaving because this government job doesn't pay enough. He earns $168,000 annually, but could earn far more in a similar position with a private firm.
Tell The Truthiness ; There's plenty of respect for Tony Snow from Truthiness, he didn't say it was to spend more time with his family, he said he needs more money ; fair enough.
With the President on his way out, not until January 20th 2009 (not that we're counting or anything), he's making sure that the ability of the administration to have domestic surveillance made as easy and in depth as possible is achieved before it's too late.
Like something out of Enemy Of The State, surveillance not before available will be allowed to be used to by agencies. This includes radars able to see objects inside buildings and underground, plus satellites with infrared cameras to be more effective during night hours as well as during the day.
Tell The Truthiness ; Giving up some of our freedoms helps us catch those who don't believe in it? That 'reason' is starting to wear really thin Mr Bush. Especially when you 'don't think' about Bin Laden too much, but can read from space the headline on our newspaper.
We've been told recently that the surge is beginning to show results in Iraq.
Lets hope the White House has seen the news of 500 people killed in the Ninevah area of Iraq.
Tell The Truthiness ; Because as we all knew, before the invasion of Iraq, rogue terrorist elements were killing hundreds every day? They all turned up after we arrived, they weren't always there, so don't try and revise history to suit your cover story.
That huge lump of legislation that was dumped on the US in late 2001 was initially believed to be for domestic security protection, dig deeper and you'll find concerning aspects.
The Los Angeles Times has found a piece in the PATRIOT Act which allows Alberto Gonzales to decide if the counsel given to death row inmates is appropriate and additional small print is being finalised to give him extra say in these ultimate decisions.
Tell The Truthiness ; Will Alberto be gone before he gets a chance to use these powers for evil?
Despite his soon to be ex-employment at the White House, Karl Rove's past actions will still be under the microscope for a while. According to Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers and his response to today's weepy goodbye that is.
"The need for Karl Rove to explain his role in the firing of the U.S. Attorneys does not diminish when he leaves the White House. Our investigation to date has revealed the White House’s contempt for the rule of law and its interest in the politicization of the Department of Justice.
"While resignations at DoJ and the White House continue to mount, questions raised by this investigation remain. We will continue to seek answers to these questions and expect full cooperation from Mr. Rove and other officials regardless of whether they are employed by the White House."
Tell The Truthiness ; He may be about to leave the administration's employ, but that doesn't erase everything that's gone before. Get a good lawyer Mr Rove.
In a teary farewell, the man anyone who likes the idea of democracy loves to hate resigned this morning.
Karl Rove will leave at the end of August, for, yes, that old chestnut, the sake of his family.
He's nicknamed 'Bush's Brain', can we expect the rest of the President's body to follow in the next couple of months?
Tell The Truthiness ; Rumsfeld, now Rove, could we have Gonzales next please?
We'll post footage of him announcing his departure once it's available, but in the meantime, here's an interesting film about the Houston Plan. We've never heard of it either.
People at home may be sick to the back teeth of the war without end in Iraq, but a new health issue has become clear for those serving in this conflict.
Record numbers of troops in the field are suffering with overtiredness, leading to serious long-term health problems.
The US army appears to care very little, with shorter leave for those returning home between tours of duty.
Tell The Truthiness ; As each weary day for these troops passes, without an end in sight, the reasons for going to war become less and less clear. The fuzziness they are no doubt suffering has spread to not just the administration, which is considering a return to the draft to maintain troop levels, but to the media. Because overtired soldiers isn't as hot a story as them getting blown up.
Despite all that's been said about the Utah mining collapse, much of the information is being relayed from the mine operator and not from the emergency services.
Murray Energy Corp's face during the whole of the events in Utah has been Bob Murray. Indeed, he's made sure to be in almost every single picture as the rescue moves forward.
In 2001, he sued the Akron Beacon Journal for $1 billion over an unflattering profile. (Among other things, the story said: "Even his friends roll their eyes at his hyperbole.") The case was settled out of court on undisclosed terms.
Also, in 2001, Murray was acquitted of charges he assaulted an environmental activist fighting Murray's plans to mine beneath a 400-year-old forest in Ohio. Murray was accused of throwing Chad Kister into a wall outside a hearing room. Murray claimed the accusations were politically and financially motivated.
Tell The Truthiness ; Like the judge in the Anna Nicole Smith case, with Mr Murray you know you shouldn't watch him on camera, but are secretly fascinated by this blustering man who's responsible for what's happening in Utah.
The weight of office that other government officials and politicians seem able to bare does not extend it seems to a couple of Republicans.
Rep. Pete Hoekstra R-Mich, had an article published in Thursday's New York Post in which it was revealed the budget for human spying had decreased, kept strictly top secret.
What makes this worse is that Hoekstra has damned those who have disclosed secrets before. Those who have leaked in the past have been deemed "recklessly and illegally" publishing information for political motives.
Tell The Truthiness Says ; Interesting to note that security threats are selectively released for maximum effect ; could this be another use of that ploy to scare people about national security to benefit the Republicans?
Following the huge success of our interactive user interface, we've got the results of another one.
100% of our visitors who voted agreed that it right that news readers refuse to read stories about pointless celebrities.
Tell The Truthiness ; We aspect the Today Show to go back to giving out real news on it's show, you know the war, rather than what cushions someone's got in their rehab bedroom.
The ability to not recall any past events on Capitol Hill seems to be spreading from the Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to the Vice President Dick Cheney.
When asked by CNN's Larry King, Mr Cheney cannot recall authorising the hospital bed visit to John Ashcroft to push him to certify the intelligence gathering programme.
Tell The Truthiness ; 'I don't recall' is as worse than saying 'yes', have some guts Mr Cheney, if not, borrow some from Mr Chertoff, he's got plenty of guts (with feelings) to spare.
The question asked about open discourse between those states the US hasn't talked to for a while and the future President in the YouTube debate has been discussed by the man who put it forward.
Tell The Truthiness ; Is true there are efforts afoot to prevent the Republican version of this event going ahead?
It turns out the surveillance carried out by the Bush administration that we've all been outraged at is actually far deeper than we all thought.
Using once again that old chestnut, an executive order, in late 2001 increased snooping on anyone suspected of being connected with potential terrorists was ordered.
Tell The Truthiness ; Who is really that surprised at this?
With the terribly friendly atmosphere between Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President George Bush threatening to turn into a love fest, we point out the important aspects of the Camp David meeting.
Like the choice of ties with Tony Blair and the new PM in the Commons, as we reported, a similar situation has happened at today's meeting.
Mr Brown was wearing a blue, conservative tie and Mr Bush was wearing a red labour coloured tie.
Tell The Truthiness ; We knew they've said they're still close, but are they dragging their parties in new directions?!
The CNN YouTube Democratic Debate was fun and there was a certain surreal quality watching the candidates listen as a giant snowman asked them a question on an overhead screen.
Without a doubt it was more engaging than the usual live debate where the moderator gives them questions. Watching voters ask the questions is a little like seeing a politician out of their natural environment.
Tell The Truthiness ; Did you agree with John Edwards and think Hillary Clinton's jacket wasn't right?
Fellow bloggers akromatika and xakkd reminded us about poor colour co-ordination in political stories.
This picture shows former Prime Minister Tony Blair, wearing a red tie, making his last statement to Parliament, with his replacement Gordon Brown, wearing a blue tie, sitting next to him.
Mr Blair and Mr Brown's Labour Party colour is red, with the opposing party, the Conservatives settling on blue.
Tell The Truthiness ; Perhaps someone should have told Mr Brown to keep a united front and wear a red tie and not the colour of the opposition!
Well, with the searching that's been going on for actual reason behind the invasion of Iraq, this one seems to have popped up and missed everyone's radar; it's all about revenge.
George W Bush is reported to have been overheard by Senator Tom Daschle, who then relayed the story to a radio talk show host that the reason for going after Saddam and into Iraq ; it was revenge for the assassination attempt made on his father by Iraq.
Tell The Truthiness ; People tend to try and kill you when you're the leader of a country, ask anyone who's had an attempt made on their life. Seems a bit severe to us, don't you think?
3618 US forces deaths so far, all for one failed murder attempt. Is this the reason Mr Bush?
The White House and anyone connected to the President (minus most of the GOP who are revolting) are pretty much rearranging the deckchairs in an attempt, any attempt, to buy time up until the middle of September.
Should we now take bets on how far they can string it out before it breaks, 4 weeks anyone?
Tell The Truthiness ; Keep all those supporters appearing on the Sunday shows, if you say it's going well enough times, someone's bound to agree with you, that's just mathmatical probability.
White House press secretary Tony Snow got grilled by ABC's Martha Raddatz on the moral equality of the US and Iraq governments going on summer break while US troops stay to bake in every meaning of the word.
Tell The Truthiness ; Will the only thing surging ahead this summer be the temperatures? Well done Martha Raddatz.
The House Of Representatives has voted to remove US troops from Iraq by Spring 2008.
This is the third time this vote has occurred and there are moves on the Hill to push for the Congress to vote the same way and hold the President's feet to the fire.
Tell The Truthiness ; He accuses the US public of having war fatigue. Nothing says fatigue like having thousands of people killed in a pointless war. Your move Mr Bush.
When asked about whether troops levels when the US went into Iraq were sufficent, the President wrapped up his answer.
He told reporters gathered at the White House that he went ''round the table'' and asked all the military chiefs, including Tommy Franks and they told him they had enough troops.
Tell The Truthiness ; Is he preparing for a change in troop levels, but is making sure blame is apportioned so that he spreads the responsibility for a poorly planned war off on others?
Responding to the report about progress, or lack of it, in Iraq, the President linked time and again the situation in that country having direct effects on US soil if the region is abandoned.
Plus when asked about Mr Chertoff's gut feeling, he didn't answer the question.
Tell The Truthiness ; ''My gut tells me what my head tells me'', translates as ''I do what Cheney tells me to do.''
As she made a statement to a Senate Committee assembled to find out the truth behind the attorney sackings, Sara Taylor stuck to loyalty as a flimsy defence for refusing to answer questions about the firings.
The reason she's not telling is because she is compelled Mr Bush's executive privilege. There are areas though she can talk about without breaching the order.
Tell The Truthiness ; If you like court tv, for this administration, it's just the start.
Possibly being used as a smokescreen against all the bad news, possibly being used to boost the profile of his dangerously understaffed department or for any other stupid reason, Michael Chertoff has cited a terrorist attack this summer on the US, with no evidence whatsoever.
The worst thing about this new threat* is that he hasn't pretended or talked up flimsy evidence, he's gone one better, he's said that there is no evidence, but that he has a ''gut feeling''.
Tell The Truthiness ; We have a gut feeling that Chertoff is an idiot and shouldn't be in charge of Homeland Security, you really should believe us though, because it's in our gut, so it MUST be true.
* please use an english to truthiness dictionary for the truthiness language definition of this word.
We don't have video of the interview yet, but as soon as it hits YouTube, we'll be the first to post it up.
Michael Moore was on CNN's The Situation Room talking to Wolf Blitzer about his new film about medical care, Sicko, when he went after the media for not apologising about Iraq coverage after his last film Fahrenheit 9/11.
Mr Blitzer more or less just let him roll, though did promise a recorded extended interview to be broadcast tomorrow.
Tell The Truthiness ; That's why it's called live TV everybody!
Anyone considering a change in career needs to look no further than the Department Of Homeland Security.
With 138 vacancies out of 575 positions, there will be plenty of space for all those new immigrants crossing the borders to get a government job.
Tell The Truthiness ; A high proportion of those vacancies are in the intelligence department. There's a vacancy for that in the Oval Office too. Anyone know where to download an application form?
Just as the UK government tries to keep the public in that country on the edge of their seats about the overblown terrorism threat, its shoulder-to-shoulder ally has said the same thing.
Like an echo bouncing across the Persian Gulf, similar in tone to that made about the UK security situation, it could have been a carbon copy.
The comments made by Lt Gen David Petraeus could be a last ditch effort to change public opinion on an indefinate war as calls grow for a pullout or policy shift.
Tell The Truthiness ; He compared Iraq to Northern Ireland, are you telling me you think their are WMDs in Belfast? Someone ring Fox News, they'd love that story!
Washington and the rest of the country is baking under summer heat, some seem to be feeling it more this afternoon than others.
Senator Harry Reid is saying that GOP members who have defected on Iraq are making the White House to reconsider it's position on the war. Senator Jim Webb is hoping to pass legislation to increase the turnaround time troops get on rotation from action in Iraq.
While the President is only interested in protecting his ass by invoking executive privilege to keep questioning of aides in the attorney furore. Other Republicans are jumping overboard and hearings on Libby are being penciled in.
Tell The Truthiness ; Despite the heat, everyone seems to be keeping busy. But are they keeping cool?
After his fourth of July speech, the US deaths over the weekend and the massive bomb that killed 150, much has been made of what the President is thinking on Iraq.
Some have said that the policy, direction, way, whatever you're calling it, has always been known in the White House. But then, some insiders say that the President keeps his true opinion of the policy to himself.
Tell The Truthiness ; Maybe the President sounds-off Barney in quiet moments on the lawn.
We all know how much Bush and the US are big, big fans of going to the ends of the Earth to catch terrorists and evildoers. But, considering all that, it's rather odd that back in 2005 Don Rumsfeld, remember him (you can get pills for the nightmares), called off a raid aimed at catching senior members of al-Qaeda.
The reason for the sudden change of heart you ask?
The US were worried about upsetting Pakistan. When have another country's feelings been taken in account when military action was concerned?
Is there something about Pakistan which we've missed? The only other country in the World that is treated so carefully is Saudi Arabia.
The usually unflinching Brits are going through an interesting time right now as a new era is being moulded by Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Since the failed car bombings, the urge to remain 'on alert' has been a non-stop story.
Now the UK's security minster Sir Alan West has said the fight against this terrorism could last 15 years.
Tell The Truthiness ; You shouldn't make sweeping generalisations like this. You may cite it as being 'honest and open' to citizens, but it gets hijacked by areas of government and the media and used to scare the population out of their wits. Tomorrow forces may leave Iraq and begin diplomacy with those fighting the coalition. Then again, it might not happen, but predicting the future in this fashion is a dangerous thing.
As Bush and Mission Accomplished can show, running things to a timetable isn't always the best way to operate.
With Live Earth concerts starting almost every hour round the globe this Saturday, its curious to grind the urgent need for change against that of someone saying, 'lets wait a bit longer'.
Mr Bush is to wait until 2008 to begin doing something about climate change.
Around 2 billion people are due to tune in to todays concerts.
Tell The Truthiness ; Bush will have to go a long way next year to catch up with the potential for change that's building up amongst everyone round the World.
Someone's suddenly researched deep enough to have read Senator Thompson's memoir about the Nixon fall from grace and found a clue that's rather at odds with his crusading, self-styled, independent image in the public eye.
The former Die Hard 2 actor, who played Washington Dulles Chief Air Traffic Controller Mr Trudeau, actually tipped off the White House before the famed questioning the following day happened.
Tell The Truthiness ; It shows how far things have come, back during Watergate no-one knew about the wiretapping, until they got caught and the whole thing was exposed. Now, if everyone knows you're wiretapping and some in government make it public, you can't be taken to court, because its really a secret and no-ones meant to know.
How things progress, justice (or just-ish as Stephen Colbert would put it) in America.
In a stunningly stupid example of the way domestic surveillence has extended post 9/11, the wiretapping case had been rejected on a technicality this evening.
In a nutshell, because wiretapping is supposed to be covert, you therefore cannot prove it goes on, they won't tell you outright, then you have nothing to bring a case against, because you have no evidence.
Yes, it's that simple, that stupid and that foolish. And yes, we're thinking that same thought as you.
Tell The Truthiness ; Perhaps Bush could class the whole of the War On Terror as covert, then if anyone does try to impeach him, or bring any legal action to his door, it will get thrown out because it was 'supposed to be our secret'. Really though, we shouldn't go putting ideas into his head.
The former Bush loyalists that keep throwing themselves clear of the crashing bus haven't had praise for very long as they really need to oppose the President's plan by coming up with one of their own.
This is something that seems to have escaped most of them up until now.
But, there does seem to be something they could latch onto.
Remember the Iraq Study Group Report? New Mexico Republican Sen. Pete V. Domenici is bringing up a bill which would have the power to implement the recomendations of the ISGR. The same man we blogged about earlier on is coming up with an alternative to the Bush 'lets keep going for as long as we can' policy.
Tell The Truthiness ; Do you have a copy of the report Mr Bush, have ours, we can courier it if you like?
The surge may be in an effort to make Iraq safer, but it's not making it cost effective, the invasion/war is now costing the US $12billion a month, up from the $8.7billion during last year.
Tell The Truthiness ; Get ready for cuts at home, can anyone say social security?
Question: Do you favor or oppose the US House of Representatives beginning impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush? 7/5/07 Favor Oppose Undecided All Adults 45% 46% 9% Voters 46% 44% 10% Democrats (38%) 69% 22% 9% Republicans (29%) 13% 86% 1% Independents (33%) 50% 30% 20% 3/15/06 42% 49% 9% Based on 1,100 completed telephone interviews among a random sample of adults nationwide July 3-5, 2007. The theoretical margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points, 95% of the time. Of the total sample, 933 interviews were completed among registered voters.
Question: Do you favor or oppose the US House of Representatives beginning impeachment proceedings against Vice President Dick Cheney? 7/5/07 Favor Oppose Undecided All Adults 54% 40% 6% Voters 50% 44% 6% Democrats (38%) 76% 24% - Republicans (29%) 17% 83% - Independents (33%) 51% 29% 20% Based on 1,100 completed telephone interviews among a random sample of adults nationwide July 3-5, 2007. The theoretical margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points, 95% of the time. Of the total sample, 933 interviews were completed among registered voters.
Another two GOP members have said it's 'times up' in Iraq, pretty soon the only people left who agree with Bush's Iraq policy will be Bush and Barney.
Tell The Truthiness ; He'd better make decisions about Iraq now, because in a few months it sounds like Dick Cheney will be bogged down in the quagmire that is his impeachment.
In his 4th Of July speech, Mr Bush did just what you've come to expect him to, related the war in Iraq to another war, which had different intentions and was grounded to a different place in time.
He related the US war of independence to that of the invasion of Iraq, just like he's compared it to the second world war and all conflicts in between. He said the enemy being fought in Iraq was the same that attacked the US on 9/11 and for the same reasons.
The second world war would have happened if the US had got involved or not, indeed, it had been going for a while before they joined in. Its clear Iraq would still be pretty stable if the invasion hadn't happened, plus Saddam would not have launched WMDs, unless he bought them from us in the meantime.
Some of those attacking coalition (does it count as a coalition with just two parties?) forces are no doubt Iraq citizens who've had enough of the occupation and quite rightly just want their country back.
Tell The Truthiness ; If five years of a war is not 'early' to exit it, then what do you deem a short war Mr Bush, twenty years?
Enough is enough, the one piece that was given in karma-like opposite to all that Bush and his cohorts have gotten away with, has been reversed.
Scooter Libby is getting a pardon, in all but word, though it means the same thing. There have been reports that the machiavellian shadowman, Dick Cheney, made a deal with Libby before the trial even started to assure him that he would not serve prison time.
Tell The Truthiness ; If the leadership of this once great country carries on, even until the next election, it will damage democracy at home and abroad which may never be repaired. You cannot wield all the power and take none of the responsibility, things don't work like that.
Despite the car fire at Glasgow Airport yesterday afternoon and the failed, we emphasis the word, failed car bombing in London on Friday morning, none of this has kept some areas of the media from taking the story and running with it until it resembles something entirely different from the bare facts.
Firstly it was alleged the cars in London was packed with explosives. The vehicles, we are told, contained cans of petrol, the first one having between two and five cannisters of propane and butane gas and nails to inflict injury (rather like the IRA bombs from the UK mainland campaign through the 70s and 80s). The petrol was actually evaporating, that was the smoke which made people notice the vehicles in the first place. so the longer the fuel vapourised, the less 'explosives' there were to explode. The cars had two mobile phone triggers, one of the cars have been rang twice, to detonate them, which both calls failed to achieve.
But, what isn't being reported much is that neither vehicle contained an oxidiser, which is vital for such a device to explode.
Secondly, a bomb disposal team member 'risked his life' to diffuse the bomb and is being hailed a hero by media. But if they couldn't have exploded, then why is this being furthered?
Thirdly, 'this has all the hallmarks of al-Qaeda' is being repeated constantly. Media outlets continue though to say this is probably connected to 'international terrorism', but the only organisation that keeps getting talking about is al-Qaeda.
Fourthly, if this has all the hallmarks, then why have all three supposed attacks failed? The Glasgow aiport jeep fire had no explosives in it. The attackers had the good sense to get one of themselves burnt, and arrested.
Fifth, 'there was no specific intelligence of an attack like this', wrong, The Times newspaper has reported that nightclubs in the UK were warned two weeks ago about them being targets for attacks.
Tell The Truthiness ; These people had the style to buy or steal a Mercedes, but not to fine-tune their bombmaking ability. Doesn't really sound like an effective, shadowy international organisation does it? You would imagine the bombs had actually exploded by the way this story is being reported by some media outlets, which they DID NOT!
