So, How Do You Manage To Walk Around…….
….With your underwear tied in that many knots? There is another flurry of howling about an imminent attack on Iran by the US, coming from the usual suspects on the left. But this one is at best, criminal at worst raging fraud. Mac's Mind has the details (I don't generally link to Kos for any reason.)
I passed this post on to the ONI AG – Office of Naval Intelligence AG to have a look-see and see if they can find this young lady – if she exists and have a chat. An active duty officer on a ship preparing for operations giving out the op plans to said operation is called – treason.
It is either another Jessie MacBeth moment, or someone is going to be breaking rocks for a long time. That kind of a breach of operational security – especially for political purposes – is a very, very serious offense.
Meanwhile, more reports that the Pentagon is making plans for an attack are surfacing. So what? The Pentagon has in its files attack plans for Andorra, I'd be willing to bet. That is what military planners do: plan. For everything they can think of. Then the plan usually gets tossed in the first 20 minutes or so after it is launched.
UPDATE: Just caught this giveaway on a second read through the stuff Mac quoted:
Last night in the galley, an ensign asked what right do we have to tell a sovereign nation that they can’t build a nuke. I mean the table got EF Hutton quiet.
Officers eat in a wardroom – either the "clean-shirt" wardroom or the "dirty-shirt" wardroom on a carrier. But a wardroom.
UPDATE: Lex – who knows what he is talking about – does not think the so-called correspondent does at all. Period. Lex systematically tears apart a lot of the babble (and catches the "galley" thing as well.) He's hoisting the flag on this fabulism. (I call it throwing the flag around here, but it references the same all-natural beef byproduct that is produced in copious quantities anywhere cows are kept. I'm sure you can figure that out.) We got another Scott Thomas MacBeth on our hands here. But about 1,200 or so commenters so far seem to be working themselves into a frothing rage over these lies.
UPDATE: Absolutely classic comment (over 1,300 now over in the fever swamps):
whether this diary is fiction is irrelevant
all signs point to BushCo stirring up war with Iran.we need to make the American people pay attention to this fact before they wake up and find themselves embroiled in another senseless war started without their consent.
Politics is like driving. To go backward, put it in R. To go forward, put it in D.
IMPEACH CHENEY FIRST.
Screw the truth, full speed ahead.
UPDATE: Frankly, even Kos himself (Yeah, I actually linked Kos – weird, isn't it?) is more than a bit put out at the BS being spread through his site. In fact, he all but calls "Maccabee" a liar, a fool or both. But Kos (both the site and the man behind it) took a serious hit here on credibility. This is probably the fastest internet takedown of a bogus bit of trutherism ever. And a LOT of Kos's best buds were cheerfully – and completely – onboard the steaming heap of fabulist crap Maccabee deposited. (Want to bet that this is Maccabee's last post on Kos?)
UPDATE: And BINGO! The post has been disappeared from Daily Kos and just can't be found anymore. Isn't that special? Isn't that typical? They got caught out – bigtime – on this piece of crap and have thrown it (and "Maccabee", I'll bet) down the old memory hole to avoid being seen for what they are. Here's the list from Memeorandum of folks who commented on the story, minus those I have already linked:
Little Green Footballs, QandO, ParaPundit, Wake up America, DownWithTyranny!, Booman Tribune, Liberty Street, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, Stop The ACLU, Israel Matzav,
You can sift out the extremely gullible on your own. Because there are several in the above list who swallowed the whole enchilada, hook, line and sinker without any question at all.
By Anthony (Los Angeles), September 2, 2007 @ 12:05 pm
Hmmm…that story on Kos really sounds like a … well, a story. Like the kind Scott Thomas Beauchamp sold The New Republic. It reads like a Leftist X-Files story, complete with disappearing officers.
Much more likely is that this is someone making himself look like a big shot to his fellow Kossacks by taking advantage of the Times story to breathlessly say something they all want to believe, anyway.
And, like you, I think the news the Pentagon has plans to attack Iran is about a shocking as the Sun rising in the East.
By lex, September 2, 2007 @ 3:36 pm
Thanks for the link, Gaius. It’s funny how the reality based community can keep falling in love with things they just want to believe.
By Gaius, September 2, 2007 @ 3:44 pm
NP, you did a nice job decontructing their latest fabulism. They swallow the whole thing, hook, line and sinker and never once ask any questions, don’t they? It’s all about truthiness in the echo chamber.