Blogswarm: The Fish is Caught through its Mouth

Pardon me if I was not able to post my personal accounts from the February 15th rally in Makati, as well as from the Baclaran Church celebration last Monday, as I was really too immersed into work. But allow me to comment about the admission (because there is no other way to call it) of Gloria Arroyo that there were indeed flaws in the NBN-ZTE contract.

She said in a radio interview that she only learned about the flaws the night before she was to witness the signing in Boao, China last April 21, 2007 and she was not able to do anything since "she did not want to embarrass us in front of the Chinese". What?

There have been many discussions, and as word spread that the DZRH interview was in effect an admission of irregularity, our version of Saddam's "Comical Ali", Toting Bunye, suddenly chimes in and says that she was not saying that there were flaws. What?

I only have some points of mine left, as all other points were already discussed all over the place. First, no one was asking her to cancel the deal outright by that time. She should have at least set aside the NBN-ZTE contract and told the Chinese that it "needs further study". I think they would have understood, being meticulous fellows too. aside from that, instead of embarrassing ourselves, we would have gotten their respect instead as it will show that we are that serious about matters like those.

Of course, it would have not crossed her mind, as well as those other points raised by different people. The only thing that was on her mind by that time was ZTE, and Fan Yang's $30 million "advance payment", if Dante Madriaga is to be believed.

Ang isda nga naman, nahuhuli sa bunganga. Only that this barracuda still struggles to get free.

Tama na. Sobra na. Kumilos na.