[Happy2BMe]

Tons Of Explosives Missing In Iraq

[MinuteGal]

It's all Bush's fault.

Leni

[7.62 x 51mm]

380 tons? Yikes!

[t-1000]

I am confused. Hanns Blix told us that the UN destroyed Saddam's nuclear weapons program?

The UN needs to decide.
1. Saddam had an active WMD programs.
2. Saddam did not have a WMD programs.

[DocRock]

The IAEA refused to let us remove 500 tons of Uranium from Iraq!


San Diego Union Tribune

[KevinDavis]

It seems to me again the UN dropped the ball on this one..

[Congressman Billybob]

Let's see. We have the UN's word that these explosives a) originally existed, and b) are not WMDs, since the UN could find no WMDs. But the UN bugged out of Iraq years before the war began.

So, were these explosives still there when the war began? Or could they have traveled to Syria, been buried in the desert, whatever? This would seem to be a basic fact that a competent reporter would have looked into.

But the story was in the New York Times. Ne-VER-mind.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "A Political Addict Prepares for Winter"

[snooker]

Kerry speech writer gives copy of speech to NYTimes,

NYTimes excerpts speech ads nuclear for effect,

runs Kerry story on front page,

Radio and TV carries the NYTimes story,

Kerry speech writer takes out copy of speech,

give to Kerry,

Kerry cites NYTimes as source

The circle is complete and it's total see-BS.

Watch the merry-go-round today.

There is so much explosives in Iraq -- Gen Tommy Franks said recently it may take years to find and secure all of it.

[Liberty Valance]

I question the timing of this story. Did the "duck shoot" not work out for Kerry?

[Zon]

In the editor's office, New York Times:

Bright-Eyed Reporter: Um, sir, a question about this explosives story...
Gruff Leathery Liberal Icon: What of it?
BER: Um, this is to be a hit piece of Bush, right? I mean, the tone and all - right?
GLLI: Of course! Of course it is a hit piece. Look! Right there - The White House wanted this buried 'till after the election! Right there proof of their cupidity!(blustering, foam gently dribbling down his aristocratic chin)
BER: But sir, the article actually um. It is um.
GLLI: Spit it out man!
BER: Well, sir, it proves that Saddam was a threat (points at article) that he had WMD programs going (points at article) and that it wasn't the fault of Bush at all (points at the fact that the stuff went missing before the invasion).
GLLI: (goes pale and sweaty, whispering hoarsely) ...Rove...
BER:(hesitantly) And um, Sir? This could only mean that the White House didn't want this out before the election - because it would hurt. Um. Kerry. A lot.
GLLI: (hoarsely)...I walked right into it. Damnit. Rove...
BER: And that would mean that .. um.. The White House ... tried to make sure, sir... that the election went fairly, since otherwise it would look like they held onto this until just now...
GLLI: (slowly turning brick red)... And so I broke it FOR them..
BER: Uh, yeah, boss.

600 posted on 10/24/2004 11:30:01 PM EDT by Republicanus_Tyrannus  

[golfboy]

Explosives? What explosives? There were no explosives in Iraq!!! EVERYONE know that!!!

[golfboy]

Explosives? What explosives? There were no explosives in Iraq!!! EVERYONE know that!!!

[EQAndyBuzz]

"C-4 or its main ingredients were used in the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen that killed 17 U.S. sailors. Traces of RDX were found in an investigation of explosions that crippled two heavily fortified Israeli tanks, indicating Palestinian militants have obtained at least small quantities of the extremely potent material. "

So Al quaeda blows up the Cole. These explosives are missing from Iraq. The year is 2000.

Nope, no link here. Moveon.org... move on

[Ima Lurker]

I'm very confused by this story. Is this something that has just happened or is it a rehash of an old story. In either case, the military was supposedly guarding this stash so how could it just disappear? FNC didn't have anything on this story that I saw this morning, but CNN made it sound like the building is currently overrun with looters.

[Laserman]

Let's not be too hasty. I suspect that the explosives disappeared during the period between when the UN left Iraq before the war and when the US soldiers arrived after the invasion. Nothing I have read indicates that the explosives were actually ever at the site when we arrived.

[Just mythoughts]

JFKerry on Fox complaining about Bush ignoring stockpiles of explosives....

[OldFriend]

Ah, the IAEA.......the experts on all things nuclear in the rogue countries!!!!

[Tallguy]

Let me get this straight. The Iraqi's looted some of their own ammo dumps when their regular military was on the point of collapse & before those sites were secured by coalition forces. Wow. This is news? This is standard practice for a country that is being overrun.

I know that there were some Iraqi dumps that were either unknown or too large to effectively guard. The last time we just arbitrarily blew one of these dumps (after Desert Storm), a bunch of troopers in a combat engineer company got hit with a cloud of chemical munitions.

Moral of the story: don't blow something up if you don't know what it is. Corollary: Sometimes the Iraqi's deliberately mis-marked their chemical munitions (so as to not unduly scare their own artillery troops).

Once again the MSM oversimplifies and times a story to have maximum political impact for the Democrats.

[Flightdeck]

"Just 5 pounds of either plastic explosive would be enough to blow up a dozen jetliners, experts say."

I don't recall AP telling the public that just that one chemical weapon used as an IDE had enough lethal doses of Sarin to kill 6 million people. I must have just missed the news that day.

[television is just wrong]

IAEA, deemed it was property of Iraq. They refused to remove it without their permission. It went missing.

[Cogadh na Sith]

WHEN DID IT 'GO MISSING'!?

Why won't any article tell me when it was there and when they noticed it wasn't?