The Soldiers Speak

The Keyboarders -- and their dolphin-worshipping camp followers (see below) -- will have to start smearing a lot of American soldiers if they want to keep up the pretense that George Bush is not responsible for failing to prevent the looting of al Qaqaa. The Los Angeles Times reports:

According to the four soldiers -- members of the 317th Support Center and the 258th Rear Area Operations Center, an Arizona-based Army National Guard unit -- the looting of Al Qaqaa occurred over several weeks in late April and early May.

The two units were stationed near Al Qaqaa at a base known as Logistics Support Area (LSA) Dogwood. Soldiers with the units said they went to the ammunition facility soon after the departure of combat troops from the 101st Airborne Division.

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According to a list of "talking points" circulated by the Pentagon last week, when U.S. military weapons hunters visited Al Qaqaa on May 8, 2003, they found that the facility "had been looted and stripped and vandalized." No IAEA-monitored material was found, the "talking points" stated.

A senior U.S. military intelligence official corroborated some aspects of the four soldiers' accounts. The official who tracked facilities believed to store chemical and biological weapons --none was ever found in Iraq -- said that Al Qaqaa was "one of the top 200" suspect sites at the outset of the war.

Despite the stockpiles at the site, no U.S. forces were specifically assigned to guard Al Qaqaa --known to U.S. forces in Iraq as Objective Elm — after the 101st Airborne left the facility.

Of course, as we've seen in the last ten days, the Keyboarders don't care about the troops one way or another. They only care about protecting their Leader from the truth, and the consequences of the truth.