Posted on 10/25/2004 8:59:55 PM PDT by TaxachusettsMan
Updated text addition:
[In a fresh Page One story set for Tuesday on the matter, the TIMES once again omits any reference to troops not finding any explosives at the site when they arrived in April of 2003. Attempts to reach managing editor Jill Abramson late Monday were unsuccessful.]
"The U.S. Army was at the site one day after the liberation and the weapons were already gone," a top Republican blasted from Washington late Monday.
The International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors last saw the explosives in January 2003 when they took an inventory and placed fresh seals on the bunkers.
Dem vp hopeful John Edwards blasted Bush for not securing the explosives: "It is reckless and irresponsible to fail to protect and safeguard one of the largest weapons sites in the country. And by either ignoring these mistakes or being clueless about them, George Bush has failed. He has failed as our commander in chief; he has failed as president."
A senior Bush official e-mailed DRUDGE late Monday: "Let me get this straight, are Mr. Kerry and Mr. Edwards now saying we did not go into Iraq soon enough? We should have invaded and liberated Iraq sooner?"
Top Kerry adviser Joe Lockhart fired back Monday night: "In a shameless attempt to cover up its failure to secure 380 tons of highly explosive material in Iraq, the White House is desperately flailing in an effort to escape blame. Instead of distorting John Kerry’s words, the Bush campaign is now falsely and deliberately twisting the reports of journalists. It is the latest pathetic excuse from an administration that never admits a mistake, no matter how disastrous."
(Excerpt) Read more at drudgereport.com ...
What's their email address?
someone should point out to that chunky jackass joe lockhart its not the White House or the Bush campaign that is debunking
this tripe, IT'S NBC NEWS !!!
I use the UPDATE MEDIA ADDRESSES right on Free Republic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1228326/posts
LMAO Jill Abramson!! There's a sympathetic ear to correcting a story falsely accusing this administration.
Even MSNBC is still going with the NY Times story.
Could the NY Times be any more dishonest? Is the Times suggesting we should have invaded Iraq earier?
I'm sorry but when John Edwards (the little boy wonder) talks about terrorism it is PATHETIC beyond belief.
how about some phone numbers so we can flood the phone-lines??
Lou Dobbs show at 11:00 pm eastern had Peggy Noonan on, he was horrible to her, but she did not say anything about the weapons being gone in April already, he kept saying their was a huge problem and her only response was it was "something" --
She did say they sure sounded like WMD's, but I am now confused of whether Drudge is correct, can someone help with the real facts???
I'm back... Give me something to do....... I can get 50 servers spaming half a million pinheads in about 10 minutes.....
They got caught with excrement in their mouth and they thought they were eating a French delicacy. They are so pathetic
Kerry is saying GI's needed to die to secure those explosives?
The New York Times has sunk to a new low. I did not think it was possible, but it seems to me the editors and their ilk have completly lost all journalistic sensibilites and are now so beyond the bend, they don't even care if the appear biased.
It's still Bush's fault. If he had gone in in December '02 instead of dicking around with the UN for 4 months, who knows what we would have found?
now theres a real surprise
There was a reason Jayson Blair found a home at the New York Times and still looks like they are keeping the light on for him.
I just sent them my reply:
Apparently, the New York Times and its website have not been informed (by NBC) that the stockpile of weapons, they accuse the military of not securing, were gone when the troops first arrived 18 months ago. The military can hardly secure something that isn't there. It would seem reasonable that you folks could at least tell the whole story, even if it does make YOUR candidate look silly for going off half-cocked.
This is exactly what I predicted on 10/08/2004 Kerry would do.
I have a prediction. Soon John Kerry will announce that Bush took too long to fight Iraq.
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