Posted on 10/25/2004 6:26:01 PM PDT by Timeout
KERRY SPOT
Jim Miklaszewski of NBC News pretty much dismantled the New York Times attack on behalf of Kerry today.
NBC News: Miklaszewski: “April 10, 2003, only three weeks into the war, NBC News was embedded with troops from the Army's 101st Airborne as they temporarily take over the Al Qakaa weapons installation south of Baghdad. But these troops never found the nearly 380 tons of some of the most powerful conventional explosives, called HMX and RDX, which is now missing. The U.S. troops did find large stockpiles of more conventional weapons, but no HMX or RDX, so powerful less than a pound brought down Pan Am 103 in 1988, and can be used to trigger a nuclear weapon. In a letter this month, the Iraqi interim government told the International Atomic Energy Agency the high explosives were lost to theft and looting due to lack of security. Critics claim there were simply not enough U.S. troops to guard hundreds of weapons stockpiles, weapons now being used by insurgents and terrorists to wage a guerrilla war in Iraq.” (NBC’s “Nightly News,” 10/25/04)
If Jill Abramson, managing editor of the New York Times, had a shred of concern over her paper's reputation for getting the facts right never mind objectivity or fairness, she would be running the correction - or at least this blatantly contradictory information - in the giant headline font and above-the-fold location that today's story got. But I guess the interest in echoing the sentiments of Maureen Dowd is more important than getting it right at the Old Gray Lady.
I wonder if David Bloom (the reporter that died in Iraq) was with the 101st then.
Democrats cheat BUMP.
Would it be possible for one of the guys from the 101st who were in on this mission to speak out against Kerry's cynical exploitation of this non-story? I resent that Kerry has to badmouth the war and the warriors to get ahead politically. Kerry is a cynical MF. He really needs to be exposed as such.
And now NBC will only drown out tomorrow's hit pieces on Bush by the WaPo and NYT.. GOOD! I never thought I'd say thanks to NBC.
LMAO!!!
TORRIE CLARK
Does anyone have a link to this @ NBC News?
Seruiously.
You just can't loot 380 tons of anything. You need many dump trucks and flat beds. And even with lax security it's hard to cart that much through security checkpoints.
Wrong, this is just the type of thing that tips feelers. Believe me.
Welcome to the family!!!
welcome to FR
Nothing that comes out of Kerry headquarters in New York, aka The New York Times, needs to be apologized for or retracted. Like Kerry himself, they are infallable.
Torie Clark, who grew on me after each briefing.
I didn't hear Sean mention it as I hit mute until the DeConcini segment finished. Never thought I'd thank NBC for anything in my life. Fantastic news!
they probably thought this would do it..............oops
I just wonder who's left to read that Slimes. Anyone?
Don't beat yourself up...only political junkies would know that off the top of their head.
Oh yeah...that's us!!!
Speaking of "rope-a-dope", it almost sounds like the trick that Hannity pulls on the libs when he says "Do you think George Bush lied when he said '(Iraq justification #1)'? Did George Bush lie when he said that 'leaving Saddam unfettered with nuclear weapons blah blah blah'?"
Every time the lib bites on it, "YEAH! BUSH LIED!"
Then Sean says, "Uh, actually, that's interesting...because George Bush never said those things...JOHN KERRY DID."
Score another one for the New York (Behind the) Times.
Now that would be an October surprise.
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