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Campaigns head to Wisconsin - President fires back on explosives lie***…..(CNN)..........The report that tons of high explosives were missing from a depot in Iraq provided campaign ammunition Monday, with Kerry launching a blistering attack on Bush. The Democrat called it "one of the great blunders of Iraq and one of the great blunders of this administration."
Late Monday, the mystery took another twist -- NBC News, which had a crew embedded with the U.S. military during the invasion, reported that the material had already vanished by the time American troops arrived there on April 10, 2003, the day after Baghdad fell. (Report: Explosives already gone when U.S. troops arrived) http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/26/iraq.explosives/index.html
The Bush camp wasted little time in firing back, firing off a statement saying that Kerry's criticism of the president over the missing material has "been proven false before the day is over."
"John Kerry's attacks today were baseless," Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt said. "He said American troops did not secure the explosives, when the explosives were already missing."
Schmidt also said that Kerry "neglects to mention the 400,000 tons of weapons and explosives that are either destroyed or in the process of being destroyed" in Iraq.
But Kerry senior adviser Joe Lockhart fired back with a statement of his own, accusing the Bush campaign of "distorting" the NBC News report.
"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," Lockhart said. "It is the latest pathetic excuse from an administration that never admits a mistake, no matter how disastrous."...
Lockhart did not elaborate on how the Bush campaign was distorting the NBC report.....
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Not only that. They ignore the fact that both CNN and NBC are reporting that the explosives have been missing since April 2003. The ONLY reason this is being brought up NOW is to prop up Kerry's Campaign.
3 posted on
10/26/2004 3:46:38 AM PDT by
MNJohnnie
(Vote Bush 2004-We cannot survive a 9-10 President in a 9-11 World)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
I'm glad you linked the thread with his bio material. It seems to be gone from FAS. Several years ago at FR I dug out the following.
"..(Exerpt From John E. Pikes bio at WWW.FAS.ORG) "He advised the 1984 Mondale campaign, the 1988 Dukakis campaign, and the 1992 Clinton campaign on defense and space policy issues. He is frequently called on by print and broadcast media for commentary, and by Congressional Committees for testimony, on space and national security issues." .."
Why does the media think John Pike is a "national security expert"? is a treasure trove of debunking and some of that material has been disappeared, probably to preserve some fraction of this guy's reputation.
He doesn't know from shinola.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
...the disappearance of which was first reported in yesterday's New York Times,...In other BREAKING NEWS, Francisco Franco has died.
13 posted on
10/26/2004 3:59:28 AM PDT by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Is the media in a sad state of affairs or what? The fact that a story is false doesn't dissuade them in the slightest. Just keep repoting it! It's mind-boggling.
To: Cincinatus' Wife; All
More "stuff from email"--
Kerry wants answers on missing explosives
"Are you keeping up with this on the thread about Hanoi Documents: Two recently discovered documents captured from the Vietnamese communists during the Vietnam War strongly support the contention that a close link existed between the Hanoi regime and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) while John Kerry served as the group's leading national spokesman"
Here's the direct link to the WinterSoldier.com article that this WorldNetDaily article is summarizing:
What ironies! Bob Woodward and the press fought to bring to light the Watergate facts. Today, the MSM consciously avoids the facts and it is left to ordinary patriots to uncover the rot. Well done.
I've known all this (not about Kerry, specifically, but the war protestors) since my days in military intelligence. I never thought I'd see the day that a 'useful idiot' or worse, communist mole, would be nominated for the highest office in the land.
NBC BLOWS A HOLE IN NY TIMES' EXPLOSIVES STORY (KERRY SPOT) "what's coming out now is just old useless info. Am I wrong?"
I believe you are correct, if they had anything, anything at all they would have used it by now. They are recycling old news- remember the national guard story they tried to resurrect and put some extra pepper on it by sending in FAKE documents. Again the bloggers came to the rescue and were the first to prove the documents as false. Everything they have tried to throw at this president has fallen flat on its face-
27 posted on
10/26/2004 4:37:00 AM PDT by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trackball into the Dawn of Information...)
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