What hypercompetent conspiracy?
You got a taskgroup laying mines, somebody fucks up and a ship gets sunk. What do they do? Come clean and make apologies to the families of the dead, or cover their asses and blame enemy fire? If you don't know the answer to that, remember Pat Tillman.
Then the politicos, whether they know the truth or not, don't look at a gift horse in the mouth and start milking the official story to push their agendas (the increasingly impopular SK president pulls a BushJr and becomes a beloved "War President", Japan is pressured not to remove the Okinawa base... win-win for all the involved!)
You don't need premeditated conspiracies for this, just the usual dishonesty.
And Jinx, EVERY news source has an agenda nowadays. I don't have a reason to trust that website less than the declararations of a military investigative comission (maybe the other way around, given the track record of the later). If the facts they report about the place the sinking took place in are wrong, I'd be grateful to be corrected. If they are right, the affair becomes at least suspicious. And for a non expert at least the picture of the barnacle-covered "killer torpedo" looks unconvincing.
You got a taskgroup laying mines, somebody fucks up and a ship gets sunk. What do they do? Come clean and make apologies to the families of the dead, or cover their asses and blame enemy fire? If you don't know the answer to that, remember Pat Tillman.
Then the politicos, whether they know the truth or not, don't look at a gift horse in the mouth and start milking the official story to push their agendas (the increasingly impopular SK president pulls a BushJr and becomes a beloved "War President", Japan is pressured not to remove the Okinawa base... win-win for all the involved!)
You don't need premeditated conspiracies for this, just the usual dishonesty.
And Jinx, EVERY news source has an agenda nowadays. I don't have a reason to trust that website less than the declararations of a military investigative comission (maybe the other way around, given the track record of the later). If the facts they report about the place the sinking took place in are wrong, I'd be grateful to be corrected. If they are right, the affair becomes at least suspicious. And for a non expert at least the picture of the barnacle-covered "killer torpedo" looks unconvincing.