Wow. This story keeps getting curioser and curioser.
And the normalization circus is now quickly turning into Alice in Wonderland.
“Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).” See Chapter 2 of Alice.
Why wouldn’t State Department porte-parole John Kirby deny that the “lost” missile might have actually been sold to the Castronoids?
Why is a spokesman like a wriggly worm? Why is a Hellfire missile like a hairshirt? As the Mad Hatter would ask: “Why is a raven like a writing desk?”
Guess away, guess away…. The normalization circus has pulled out a new riddle-and evasion-riddled act called “the Mad Hatter’s Cuban Tea party” See Chapter 7 of Alice.
Or… just take a look at the video embedded above.
From The Blaze.
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.” Chapter 6.
See Answer Reporter Gets When He Asks State Dept Spokesman Point Blank if U.S. Sold Cuba Hellfire Missile
One day after the Wall Street Journal revealed that a dummy U.S. hellfire missile was mistakenly shipped from Europe to Cuba in 2014, the State Department refuses to deny whether or not it was sold to the Cuban government.
“I am restricted, under federal law and regulations, from commenting on the specific defense trade, licensing cases and compliance matters,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said during a press conference Friday.
“What I can say is under the Arms Export Control Act, the State Department licenses both permanent and temporary exports by U.S. companies of regulated defense articles,” Kirby added.
The State Department spokesman went on to say that it is U.S. companies that are responsible for documenting their shipping logistics and are responsible for reporting any shipping deviations to the federal government. Previous reports indicated that Lockheed has been attributed with the shipping error that lead to the improper shipment.
When pressed for more detail, Kirby said he’s “not at liberty to comment further.” But that did not stop reporters from pressing the official on the issue.
“You’re not suggesting that you actually sold this to the Cubans?” one reporter asked Kirby. ”I don’t understand why you can’t say, ‘No, we didn’t sell this to the Cubans, it got there by accident by mistake.’”
“You want to leave open the possibility that our government sold or gave a hellfire missile, intentionally, to the government of Cuba?” the reporter continued, seemingly agitated.
The missile, now allegedly in Cuban possession, did not contain explosives, according to the Journal, but there are concerns over the potential for the Cubans to share the defense technology with U.S. adversaries like North Korea or Russia.
U.S. officials have been urging the Cuban government to return the missile. In addition, the U.S. government is reportedly investigating whether or not the missile’s disappearance was an intentional act of espionage.
Well, nothing about the Obongo Administration surprises me anymore. Didn’t he completely disregard the clandestine sale of hundreds of tons of weapons to Korea? And how about that other secret cache of armaments that was found in Panama or was it Colombia? It seems that nothing raul does is enough to dissuade Obongo. He is going to be the first sitting president to go to Cuba since castro’s rise to power come hell or high-water! Neither American missiles in Cuba, clandestine arm sales to terrorist countries or dead dissidents and worsening human rights violations is going to stop his legacy building God Dam it!
Repeat after me: “Cuba is a joke, so anything and everything is permissible. Nobody really cares. All the usual suspects are on board with business as usual. Move along.”