The Laughing Wolf

Where's The Boom?

There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom! And I bet that is what a lot of people in the Old Media and the DNC wanted with the story yesterday of the missing explosives. The cries were immediate and loud about how Bush screwed up yet again, the massive danger we were all in because of the less than one percent of conventional explosives in Iraq that are missing. But, wait! As it turns out, the explosives were not there from the start, a fact confirmed by the Old Media itself.

I expect a lot more lies, distortions, and attempts to influence the election from all sides, particularly the radical extreme. Nor is that limited to here -- I expect as many attacks as possible to be launched in Iraq and even in Afghanistan. I still expect an attack here before or on election day, but hope to be proven wrong.

Short version is, check any story out thoroughly, no matter how good it is or how much you want it to be true.

LW