Posted on 10/26/2004 8:15:25 PM PDT by Cableguy
hmmph....
Looting.
How does one "loot" roughly 400 tons of this sort of exotic explosive?
Just like a kid, when you are caught in a lie, instead of owning up, they usually dig themselves in deeper and deeper trying to prove they aren't lying.
Wasn't the 3D also there? Why are some in the 101st A saying they did check and found nothing. And why is Dana Lewis saying he saw no IAEA tagged stuff there.
I HATE the NYT!
With about 30 large trucks. Easy to do with roads shut down in the middle of a war zone.
But already the NYT has retreated (and I think will retreat even further). The NYT had couched this as if it were new and had just happened. Now they aren't doing that. Keep on trying NYT, you are now the story, not the story itself.
The NBC reporter showed video of opened bunkers? I guess the commander disobeyed a direct order?
This sounds like the sort of background work they should have done before they published their first hit piece if they wanted to be fair.
On its face, though, the article doesn't seem to be plainly lying like the first two.
The relocation and consumption of some dual use materials has been among the questions raised in connection with Iraq's backlog of semi-annual declarations. The high explosive "HMX" is a prime example of such material. The removal of Agency seals on the HMX and the declared relocation and consumption of some of the HMX must be explained and documented by Iraq before the Agency can reach a conclusion with regard to the use of such material. The Iraqi declarations indicate that out, of the 228 tonnes of HMX available in Iraq at the end of 1998, 196 remained at the facility where the HMX was previously under IAEA seal. Iraq also declared that it had blended the remaining 32 tonnes with sulphur and turned them into 45.6 tonnes of "industrial explosive" provided mainly to cement plants for mining. The material balance, current stock, whereabouts and final use of such material are currently being investigated. http://www.iraqwatch.org/un/iaea/iaea-elbaradei-unscbriefing-010903.htm
I think it would be a lot more than 30 Iraqi trucks aren't as big as our normal trucks. Mil guy on Hewwit's show said they only carry 5Ton. Thats a lot of truckin.
Foxnews website has a great video of a peice from the Brit Humes' show well worth seeing.
Wonderful!!
Once again, compared with the amount of weapons that have been recovered and destroyed, that 380 is drop in bucket IF they could have snuck 38 truckloads out from under the military's noses.
Plus, since Bush was not there, and was relying on military like a good Commander in Chief does (remember Vietnam, a war fought by politicians at the last)then Kerry is really blaming the military and the Commander of the Unit named in story would be the scapegoat.
Anybody have a picture of his fella Anderson?
More like 60-70 or so trucks then. Easy for simple looters.
Besides, if these weapons are so dangerous that everyone is all paniced about them being gone, then doesn't that prove that Bush was correct in going to war. The IAEA says they left these horrible weapons locked up. Why didin't they destroy them if they were so dangerous.
They can't have it both ways!!!!!!!!!!!!!
{sarcasm/} still have trouble with that one after all these years.
Something about this doesn't smell right. Anderson is risking his career by commenting to the press that way.
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