Shrillblog: The FACTS Have Joined The Order of the Shrill!!:
[T]he Bush administration has said:
* It’s not a big deal. (Di Rita, 10/24)
* It’s the Iraqi’s fault. (McClellan, 10/25)
* There was a lot going on, so we might have missed it. (McClellan, 10/25)
* We’ve found lots of other less dangerous explosives. (McClellan, 10/25)
* The Pentagon only learned about this a few days ago. (McClellan, 10/25)
* U.S. forces completely searched the facility several times after the invasion. (Di Rita, 10/25)
* The explosives were taken before the U.S. got there. (Di Rita, 10/26)
* This NBC story proves that the explosives were indeed missing when U.S. forces first arrived. (Pentagon official, 10/26)
* Oops, NBC pulled their story; their reporter’s group wasn’t the first on the scene. (AP, 10/26)
* Oops again, the troops didn’t search the facility — they were in combat. (MSNBC, 10/26)
* We never found any explosives. (Pentagon official, 10/27)
* We have satellite pictures of trucks at the bunkers, maybe taking the explosives. (Di Rita, 10/27)
* Oops, wrong bunkers. (Global Security, 10/28)
* The Russians took the explosives. (Shaw, 10/28)
* The troops didn’t search hard enough. (Giuliani, 10/28)
* Kerry hates the troops. (Bush, 10/28)