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.
RIP David Bloom
BUMP!!
I am proud of him- and his comrades- beyond words. What they accomplished in Iraq could fill several books- and they did it with guts and humor and lots of MRE's:)
It's there now....
Little late if you ask me....
Their web site still has the LIE up...I just checked.
Drudge seems too busy posting up the next "Surprise" in store for Bush-- What the H**L has happened to him lately?
The DU'ers are freaking over this, I bet. Kerry needs Clinton to take his foot out of his mouth, after they geT Hillary's foot out of his ass.
Because to the UN, Terrorism IS a peaceful use.
Thanks for the ping Tonk!
Unfortunately, anything said to rebut this lie would have to pass through the MSM in order to make it to John Q. And of course, they never admit they were wrong. So it will just pass as though it were true, and the public won't know it was all a lie.
He said it just before Sean lowered the NBC boom on him.
We FReepers have highly developed olfactory systems anymore.
Prairie
if anything,, this just backfires on them, all of their dirty tricks are falling back on them.
Evening pissant,
With the polls the way they are, still counting on winning that case of your favorite six-pack beverage?
(I'd love to pay off!)
Same outfit as Kerry! must've been buddies?
shouldn't Hannity, Rush et al have THAT info?? that would be a great followup story
collusion
not to mention this: ...who famously declared that in a confrontation between an American and a North Vietnamese soldier he'd want to see the American get shot." The public has a right to knwo, No?
might open some more eyes on who they're getting their information from
If he'd pulled the trigger 6 months earlier, Sadam's boys would have had much less time to prepare the current gurilla war, less time to ship arms out to Syria, and less time to smuggle their $Billions to safe places in Europe.
Of course, Kerry would have waited forever - he'd never have authorized an invasion Iraq, so all those now-missing weapons would still be safe in their bunkers!
Yep, Bush screwed this up royally. Vote Kerry!
< /end sarcasm >
SFS
That damn BBC World is still reporting the loss of 380 tons of explosives!!!!!!!!!!
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