So HOW LONG they have this card up their sleeve?
"Speicher was declared killed by the Pentagon.... 10 years later, the Navy changed his status to missing in action.... In October 2002, the Navy switched his status to “missing/captured,’’ although it has never said what evidence it had that he ever was in captivity"
He was BEING USED for WAR PROPAGANDA against Iraq, dumb-dumbs!
They NEVER HAD ANY EVIDENCE just like the WHOLE DAMN THING!
See: Prop 102: Iraq and Government Lies
They laid him down on the table today, huh?
"18 years later, Navy pilot’s remains found in Iraq desert; Was the first US casualty of Gulf War" by Pauline Jelinek and Pamela Hess, Associated Press | August 3, 2009
WASHINGTON - Navy pilot Michael “Scott’’ Speicher was shot down over the Iraq desert on the first night of the Gulf War in 1991 and it was there he apparently was buried by Bedouins, the sand hiding him from the world’s mightiest military all these years.
And Saddam was found in a spider hole:
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Yeah, you don't want to listen to that woman.
In a sorrowful resolution to the nearly two-decade-old question about his fate, the Pentagon disclosed yesterday that it had received new information last month from an Iraqi citizen that led Marines to recover bones and skeletal fragments - enough for a positive identification.
Shot down over west-central Iraq on a combat mission in his FA-18 Hornet on Jan. 17, 1991, Speicher was declared killed by the Pentagon hours later. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney went on television and announced the United States had suffered its first casualty of the war.
But 10 years later, the Navy changed his status to missing in action, citing an absence of evidence that Speicher had died. In October 2002, the Navy switched his status to “missing/captured,’’ although it has never said what evidence it had that he ever was in captivity. More reviews followed, without definitive answers....
His story never waned in Jacksonville. A large banner flying outside a firefighters’ credit union has a photo of him with the words: “Free Scott Speicher.’’ At his church, a memorial was put up in his honor. The tennis complex at his alma mater, Florida State University, was named for him.
Over the years, critics contended thar the Navy had not done enough, particularly right after the crash, to search for Speicher. A lieutenant commander when he went missing, Speicher, 33, later reached the rank of captain because he kept receiving promotions while his status was unknown.
Family spokeswoman Cindy Laquidara said relatives learned Saturday that Speicher’s remains had been found. “The family’s proud of the way the Defense Department continued on with our request’’ to not abandon the search, she said.
Laquidara said the family would say more after being briefed by defense officials.
The US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 finally gave investigators the chance to search inside Iraq.
Hey, if for no other reason it was WORTH IT, right, America?
The MILLIONS of DEAD and TRILLIONS of DOLLARS all worth it to find this guys bones!
Speicher’s family - including two college-age children who were toddlers when he disappeared - believed more evidence would surface as Iraq grew more stable.
Related: Occupation Iraq: Country in Crisis
So stability means sucking up shit, huh?
A number of new leads surfaced after the invasion, including the discovery of what some believed were the initials “MSS’’ scratched into the wall of an Iraqi prison. More than 50 sites were checked by military search crews in the months after the invasion.
The PROPAGANDA NEVER CEASES, does it?
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
INITIALS from a PRISONER who was NEVER EVEN THERE!!
So when did Bush slip that one out his sleeve?
There were SO MANY LIES I think I EVEN MISSED a FEW!!!!!
Investigators excavated a potential grave site in Baghdad in 2005, tracked down Iraqis said to have information about Speicher, and made other inquiries.
But they can't investigate our unmentioned air slaughters against women, children, and families.
Officials said yesterday that they got new information last month from an Iraqi citizen, prompting Marines stationed in the western province of Anbar to visit a location in the desert that was believed to be the crash site. The Iraqi said he knew of two other Iraqis who recalled an American jet crashing and the remains of the pilot being buried in the desert, the Pentagon said.
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Timing sure is FORTUITUOUS for the U.S., isn't it?
Btw, whatever happened to this LIVE GUY: The Taliban Tool to Keep AmeriKa in Afghanistan
