October Surprise Foiled

Neal Nuze ^ | 10/26/04 | Neal Boortz

[NotchJohnson]

OK .. I GET A BIT "I TOLD YOU SO TODAY"

Yesterday the news broke about 380 tons of explosives that disappeared in Iraq. The International Atomic Energy Agency was raising quite a fuss over this, as was the American mainstream media. Boy oh boy, did the media love this story. After all, it really looked bad for Bush, didn't it? ABC and CBS hammered the story, as did MSNBC. But CNN? Wow! Did CNN love this story. They covered it at least 50 times yesterday.

Then, of course, we had the Kerry campaign jumping on the story. The Poodle called it one of the greatest blunders of Iraq. He slammed Bush for, as he put it, "failing to guard" the stockpile of explosives.

In yesterday's Nealz Nuze I wrote the following:

The IAEA says that they were monitoring the explosives prior to the war. Now they're gone. The IAEA doesn't know when they disappeared. They can't say that Saddam didn't remove them before the American invasion. They can't say that Saddam's soldiers didn't move them to another location after the invasion began. They just don't know.

Oh, you should have seen the email. I was a Bush crony. I was making weak excuses for Bush's failures in Iraq. I didn't do my homework. I was lying. Blah blah blah.

Well ... here's your "I told you so."

Last night we get a report on NBC news that the explosives were already missing when U.S. troops arrived at the storage location on April 10, 2003. The last time the IAEA saw the explosives was three months earlier in January of 2003. There is no way to know just when the explosives were removed. Sometime after the IAEA saw them in January and before American troops got there in April. Obviously this isn't a case of Bush failing to "guard" the explosives. By the time our troops got there they weren't there to guard. In other words, nobody failed to guard anything and there was nothing we could have done about it. They were gone when we got there.

Well .. .hold on. There is something we could have done about it. We could have invaded earlier! Get in there before the Iraqis had a chance to hide the explosives! Is that what the Kerry supporters are saying we should have done?

This was a "get Bush" story from the beginning. There have been some problems between the Bush White House and the head of the IAEA. This was supposed to be the "October Surprise." Drudge is reporting this morning that CBS was hoping to run with this story on Sunday's 60 Minutes ... two days before the election. The New York Times beat them to the punch ... and, unfortunately for the designs of the leftist press, in time for the truth to come out.

[foreverfree]

I still believe Syria has most of Saddam's munitions, including WMD, hidden somewhere in that country.

How did their movement elude our recon satellites?

ff

[dr_who_2]

Yeah, these morning "news" shows seem to be just more or less Democrat propaganda for the homebound.

[epow]

How did their movement elude our recon satellites?

I don't know that they did. As best as I recall, there were numerous news stories about the truck convoys going into Syria at that time. I don't know how they were spotted, but I suppose it had to be either by manned aircraft or by satellite.

After the all the attention given by the press to the fall of Baghdad those reports seemed to have been forgotten. But I well remember at the time there was lots of speculation by the ex-military "experts" on Fox about the convoys possibly moving WMD out of Iraq to storage sites in Syria.