While the national media tries to make a new story from Scott McClellan's non-revelations, Newbedford360.com has video of Jeff Beatty ("a man Tom Clancy would have eventually created ") telling of how, in the weeks before the war , he was invited to the the Pentagon for a briefing. The vid shows him saying:
" I went to Rumsfeld's conference room......met the Secretary..nice coffee, good china."
Jeff describes how an under-secretary showed them a mobile weapons lab slide show. So after all the formalities and patriotic hooplah, Jeff decides to ask a question.
"excuse me sir, great briefing, loving drawings [but] ..when i was in Delta force as operations officer under Ronald Reagan, we used to have a rule that no US troops would be committed to battle without US eyes on the target"
Beatty then asked whether a Delta force member had "crawled across the desert floor", or had collected a scoop of testable soil for evidence, or had a sample mobile weapons lab been airlifted out as evidence?
"or are we basing this on the reporting of some foreign agent who the more fantastic a tale he tells us, the better we compensate him?"
Beatty says the Pentagon gave an unconvincing answer about a "virtual certainty."
The proof presented for war was BS, says Beatty."Virtual certainty" was a lie. I knew "right then and there we didnt have it", he says.
It's shame that he waited almost as long as Scott McClellan and the US Senate to produce this knowledge to an audience.
See more at approx 6.30 minutes:
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