10 Thoughts about MH17.

1. I've seen this before: People get into trouble, and despite the evidence made plain to them, dig themselves deeper by redirecting culpability and insisting that there's a conspiracy to fabricate everything.
2. Here's a list of redirection of culpability:
1. It was Ukraine's fault -- it's a Kiev conspiracy long in the planning;
2. It was Ukraine's fault -- they actually shot down the plane;
3. It was Ukraine's fault -- Kiev shouldn't have tried to restore control over eastern Ukraine;
4. It was Ukraine's fault -- Kiev had bad aviation security;
5. It was Malaysia Air's fault -- they shouldn't have flown over the region.
3. Even a Republican politician has gotten into the redirection game, blaming the incident indirectly on Obama.  You see, for some, politics colors everything they see.
4. Pro-Russian rebels, as I've noted previously, took credit for shooting down a plane thought to be an AN-26, hours before they tried to deny taking down any such plane, followed by insistence that the dead bodies recovered from the wreckage were staged.
5. Someone using a Russian Federation government IP was caught trying to edit Wikipedia to blame Ukraine for the downing of MH17.
6. According to rebels and Russia, the rebels didn't have Russian surface-to-air missiles,except, the videos and still images showing otherwise.
7. Audio recording intercepts show that Russian military and rebels were talking about the incident, the confusion over what was shot, and the ensuing panic to cover it up.  Oh, and CBS News' Clarissa Ward confirmed the voice of the commander in the recording. 
8. People may be poaching from the dead, including credit and debit cards.  No respect for the dead, whatsoever.
9. Rebels might be trying to destroy physical evidence while blocking investigators from the site, but they are a bit shortsighted, as there is no feasible means of removing the most critical evidence that would go to show that a missile hit the plane.  You can't remove every small bit of metal that would go to show that a Russian-made BUK surface-to-air missile was used.  Besides, the best evidence was already provided directly by the rebels themselves.  They'd be fooling themselves if they think that the BUK equipment can be moved out without being noticed, either.  
10. Had the rebels come out right away and confessed that they had made a tragic error in the middle of a war, they and their sponsor, Russia, would have had a decent chance to come out of all this with just tarnished reputations.  Instead, they've determined to deflect all culpability, which only focuses anger towards both of them, and will result in widespread demands that the International Court take on the issue of rebel war crimes and Russia's role.