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.
Looks like he was right!
BUMP
Here's how to contact the Times...and believe me it is working.
Phone number is (212) 556-1234 then hit the following prompts: 5-then-1-then-4. That will bring you to the foreign desk.
I am starting to think that CBS is owned by Al-Jazeera.
Do you have a link to your AP story posted at #519? Thanks.
I mean 518.
exactly
my theory: We know Saddam counted on his partners in illegal oil-for-arms scam (UN, France, Germany) to block Bush from action. I remember his cock-of-the-walk posturings. He had his "partners" over a barrel - literally - and they did everything they could to stop Bush from acting.>
When it was apparent Bush wouldn't back down - Saddam, with his partners running interference - was allowed to truck this stuff out of Iraq into Syria
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040816-011235-4438r.htm
"Saddam Hussein periodically removed guards on the Syrian border and replaced them with his own intelligence agents who supervised the movement of banned materials between the two countries, U.S. investigators have discovered"
Kerry wants us under the rule of the UN because he's deep in this group =- has been for decades. He needs to protect his butt
There is a massive panic that this will come to light if they don't gain control..
They have everything to loose and they all will be pulling "O'Donnell" tirades....
pray to God enough Americans still have brains
It's an AP story reported by Fox - it's a 4/4/03 not 4/02/03 story....sorry for the incorrect date.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83252,00.html
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here's a link -
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040816-011235-4438r.htm
Saddam agents on Syria border helped move banned materials
By Rowan Scarborough THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Saddam Hussein periodically removed guards on the Syrian border and replaced them with his own intelligence agents who supervised the movement of banned materials between the two countries, U.S. investigators have discovered
Sounds like the same as I posted earlier in post #896:
Lai Ling who was embedded with 101st Brigade just stated on MSNBC that they only stayed at this weapons facility approximately 24 hours and no search for weapons was carried out. She said that the bunkers were looked at, but no search for weapons. That they were enroute to Baghdad.
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