by Pepe Escobar

Asia Times

10/29/04

Whether it was poetic justice or yet one more instance of hubris, in the end there was indeed an 'October surprise.' Call it the WMD-lite scandal: the disappearance of 380 tons of dual-use explosives in Iraq.

Certainly Republican Machiavelli-in-charge Karl Rove didn't see this surprise coming -- hitting the Bush administration like a jet converted into a missile. Now the neo-cons and Pentagon civilians are scrambling like mad trying to cover US President George W Bush's back and defuse yet another spectacular blunder...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FJ29Ak04.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp