Lately Bolt seems to have become increasingly disassociated with
reality. On
his blog today he’s insanely demanding that Putin hand over the ‘murder
weapon’ that was used to shoot down flight MH17 over the Ukraine. Bolt writes:
Where is the Buk
missile system that almost certainly brought down the Malaysian airliner?
In any murder
investigation, the weapon is usually second only to the body in the search for
physical evidence.
That the Buk has
not been produced proves Russia is actually hiding evidence of a crime — one in
which it is deeply implicated.
The Buk is so
massive it should be the easiest thing for Russian President Vladimir Putin to
find. It’s nearly 10 metres long and four metres high. The killers can’t drop
it down a drain or toss it in a dumpster.
Moreover, it is an
incredibly lethal and expensive weapon that no army would somehow lose.
Of course, Russia is no more ‘hiding evidence of a crime’ than the Americans
were when they shot down Iran Air Flight 655 in July 1988. Like the 1988
incident, the shooting down of Flight MH17 was a tragic case of
misidentification. The Americans did not hand over the Surface to Air Missile
launcher that was used to shoot down the Iran Air Boeing A300. Apart from anything
else, what would be the point? The fact is; Russia, apart from the fact that it
either directly or indirectly supplied the weapon, actually had nothing to do
with the shoot down of MH17. There is no way the Putin or any of his military
would have authorised the shoot down of a commercial aircraft. Clearly, the
entire incident, like that of the shoot down of 655, was a simple case of misidentification
which, in his case, was carried out by inexperienced militiamen.
Surely this blatant disinformation is libelous.
ReplyDeleteWhere are the lawyers? This hate monger and distorter of the truth needs to be sued.
Lol, this reminds me of a guy's argument online that the WMD claims in Iraq could not be falsified. His argument was that the 'evidence' would have been too easy for the USA to fake for them to NOT do it. His specific example, and I wish I was kidding, was how easy it would be for an NSA agent to get into Saddam's office and put some 'WMD parts in his desk drawer'.
ReplyDeleteThat Bolt is as dissociated from reality as the craziest poster you could hope to meet on the IMDb forums sadly says a lot for where he is these days..