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.
Any link to the second one, though? The msnbc article linked doesn't mention the embed, and actually quotes an "anonymous pentagon official" saying the troops were there and found the explosives intact after the invasion.
That whistling sound we're hearing is Kerry reaching terminal velocity in a free fall...
Either way, while it's distressing the bad guys presumably have access to the stuff, it's not a political hit against Bush or the US military that the stuff isn't where the IAEA said it was.
David Bloom
Born: 22-May-1963
Died: 6-Apr-2003
Rest in Peace.
Not only that, rocky88, but even the Perky Communist on the Today Show, in interviewing Flurch Munster, said that while you (Kerry) are talking about how the Republicans are trying to fear and smear, your side talks about a danger to Social Security, a danger of the draft...isn't your side the 'pot calling the kettle black'...???
Heck, I guess it's true...even a broken watch is right twice a day.
Thank you! I thought I was nuts. I believe even one of the guards told about this. Obviously, not a SH loyalist. Seems to me that's where some one of this stuff went.
Did you also notice that for the last few nights, Alan has mentioned that there have been repeated invitations to the Kerry camp to do an interview with Alan and they either haven't responded, or refused? I mean, come on, Alan is as left as Kerry is, so what would he be afraid of?
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LOL, evidently.
"They revealed how far they are willing to go to destroy this President, and in effect, immunized him. They don't have the power to destroy this man."
Exactly, Soul Seeker!
They have thrown out so many wild accusations, that the American people have built up an immunity, of sorts, and everything now rolls off W's back.
At this point, they could reveal that W was present at a Michael Jackson pajama party, and viewers would just filter it out.
They've immunized the public against an October surprise!
Michael Moore, in my book, has done more to advance the conservative cause than anyone I can think of, except Reagan and Limbaugh.
Any chance he's secretly one of ours?
Griz
Apparently, when Bush said this he meant the MSM in addition to the terrorists.
The man is a strategerist
The U.N is not our friend.
Tori
Cute!
DeConcini said that??? Pinch me as I'm surely dreaming that NBC corrected the NYSlimes and DeConcini assessment of the article clearly pointed to WMDs which we said all along.
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