Posted on 10/26/2004 8:55:46 AM PDT by MaineRepublic
John Edwards yesterday said President Bush's administration is "reckless and irresponsible" for failing to secure a huge weapons site in Iraq. "It's not even ignoring these mistakes or being clueless about them; George Bush has failed. He has failed as commander in chief. He has failed as President," Mr. Edwards told about 2,500 supporters at the SeaGate Convention Centre, many of them United Auto Workers members. Mr. Edwards, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, referred to a report by The New York Times that the Iraqi interim government has warned the United States and international nuclear inspectors that nearly 380 tons of conventional explosives - used to demolish buildings, make missile warheads, and detonate nuclear weapons - are missing from a former military installation in Iraq. "This is exactly the kind of explosives that terrorists want," said Mr. Edwards, a U.S. senator from North Carolina. "They're easy to transport, they're easy to conceal, and powerful. " The Times reported that the American military was supposed to be in charge of the huge facility, called Al Qaqaa, but it is now a no man's land, still picked over by looters as recently as Sunday. United Nations weapons inspectors had monitored the explosives for many years, but White House and Pentagon officials acknowledge that the explosives vanished sometime after the American-led invasion last year.
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apology is in the mail
Edwards continues to PROVE he is a f______g idiot, just like Kerry and the rest of the DNC mob. The MSM will never apologize for their damage they have done, and if they were to ever do it, it would of course, be AFTER NOVEMBER 2ND.
The fools that continue to pay for MSM newspapers and watch the leftist networks, deserve everything they get.
Is that all he could get to come out and listen to this crap? If they were at a convention center and he only got 2500 bodies in there, this campaign is sinking so fast it's funny.
Idiocy reigns supreme at the DNC along with desperation. FLUSH THE JOHNS!
This DEMOCRAP and the other one, Kerryuacus, are both SCUMBAGS...and should be...
Edwards asked his wife what to say, and now he is waiting for her to finsh chewing the dozen donuts in her mouth so that she can tell him what his answer will be.
I sent letters too...many last night....but this morning I get to hear more about this lie, amd on Fox none the less...maybe the President will be able to use this in his stump speeches, but I wish the MSM would set it straight better than they are
postmarked Nov. 3
LOL:)
Explosives were sent to France. See article below:
U.S. Nuclear Material Unloaded in France
AP/The Spokesman Review | 10-07-2004 | Frederic Veille
Posted on 10/07/2004 11:13:52 AM PDT by lilylangtree
CHERBOURG, France--Working under tight security from helicopters and police, port crews unloaded U.S. military plutonium from a British ship on Wednesday after its arrival in northwest France, nuclear industry officials said.
The nuclear material was unloaded from the Pacific Pintail while another ship in the convoy, the Pacific Teal, remained at bay following its role as escort vessel and decoy. The two heavily armed vessels left from Charleston, S.C., on Sept 20.
"The plutonium is going to now be unloaded with the greatest precaution," said Henri Jacques Neau, a spokesman for Cogema, the French company responsible for treating the plutonium, moments before the unloading. It was to be taken to a processing plant in the La Hague by way of a secret itinerary, he said.
A small flotilla of boats from environmental group Greenpeace mounted a peaceful protest against the arrival of the shipment in the Normandy port of Cherbourg at about 7:20 a.m. local time.
"This shipment of weapons plutonium is a wake-up call to the world," said Tom Clements of Greenpeace International. "Rather than ship this dangerous material worldwide now is the time for aggressive steps to halt proliferation of all nuclear weapons materials."
Greenpeace led a string of protests against the shipment of military-grade plutonium taken from U.S. nuclear warheads.
Cogema initially said 308 pounds of plutonium was being shipped, but U.S. officials later said the figure was 275 pounds.
The highly radioactive substance has been brought to France for conversion into a commercial fuel called MOX at the Cadarache factory in southeast France.
On Tuesday, a dozen people holding a "Stop Plutonium" banner chained themselves to a truck and blocked a regional highway leading to the Cogema company plant, where the plutonium is to be treated.
France's state-of-the-art nuclear technology is being used to help fulfill the terms of a September 2000 U.S.-Russia disarmament accord in which both countries promised to destroy 34 tons of military plutonium.
According to the Weekly Standard at least 70% of the population of voters are uneducated and only hear talking points...therefore this story has legs with 70% who will never hear or read retractions or the truth.
so they were protesting the destruction of potential nuclear weapons? hmmmm
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