At this point I don't trust much of anything the media presents on the war. There were two chem-bio discoveries yesterday. At least that was the story yesterday. The small number of mustard and sarin tipped missiles really sounded like a smoking gun. Except you can't even find that story today. It's gone. Vanished. What happened? I thought these were probably the canisters the CIA flew in specially for the occasion. Must've been a big problem with the story, like 'made in USA' stamped on the side or something. The other story about drums filled with pesticide that caused a skin rash were uhm... filled with pesticide that caused a skin rash.

So now there's another round of bunker busters that supposedly landed on Saddam's head - along with both sons. Yeah, right. Show us the tattered khakis and body parts. They can't. All the evidence was vaporized. I'm reminded of a story. The boy who yelled 'Wolf'. They don't know whether he's alive or dead, and aren't very re-assuring about whatever purported intelligence placed him at the scene in the first place. Sound familiar? Then there's a gap of at least twelve minutes between the intelligence and when the bombs fell. He was eating dinner. How long do you spend eating dinner? Me, about 12 minutes. But they're pretty certain we got Chemical Ali. I'm trying to recall how many times I've heard that now. Four? Five?

It's starting to remind me of another movie. In this case, any horror or action flick from the 90's. You know the ones. The bad guy is mortally wounded and looks dead. Everybody celebrates. Then the body vanishes and he comes back swinging for the grand finale.

US soldiers walked right into one of Saddam's palaces without anybody putting up a fight. Of course they did. That palace has been pounded every day for weeks. Only thing alive in there were the cockroaches. Nobody in their right mind would think of holing up there.

We now have a new number one spot for the worst career move of all time. That would be becoming a tank commander in the Iraqi armed forces. Reportedly (I have to qualify everything these days) there are about 19 tanks left of the 800 or so they started with. 19. That means they've actually counted them and know pretty much where they are. (Presumably).

Some other numbers worth pondering... we've now dropped about 40 million pounds of explosives on that country. The pentagon lists it only in tons, which is a more palatable number (only 20,000 of them). Since we know the MOAB is somewhere around 20,000 tons by itself I guess they haven't launched any of those yet.