CBS Reported Suspicious Powder At Al Qaqaa In April 2003 (CBS Blows It Again)

http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/ ^ | 10/26/2004 | Captain Ed

[BurbankErnie]

Heh.

Full CBS Story link:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/04/iraq/main547667.shtml

[aft_lizard]

first time i saw NYTro Gate, very clever.

[7mmMag@LeftCoast]

Wow, beat me to it :)

[kcvl]

bttt

[GeorgeBerryman]

Betcha Drudge carries this later tonight or tomorrow. Egads, the leftists' wild-eyed plot for an October Surprise is melting like so much goo.

[happydogdesign]

[Kiss Me Hardy]

well, they'll say "See, it was there in those boxes. Now it's gone -- obviously Bush's fault"

What are the chances our guys destroyed it at some point?

[conservativepoet]

COOL!!!

[GeorgeBerryman]

What are the chances our guys destroyed it at some point?

Once they'd discovered it wasn't a bio or chem weapon? I'd say 99.9999%.

[Mo1]

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[elizabetty]

Doesn't all of this make you wonder what total crap these "news" organizations have been pushing all these years? They probably wouldn't know the truth if it bit them in the fanny.

[Leto]

This should be sent to Rush and Fox news. Great job by the blogger.

[JerseyHighlander]

Some reporter needs to ask if the chemical signatures of the C4 precursors held at Al Qaqaa are on file with the US military.

Some reporter needs to ask if the Al Qaqaa facility was on the IAEA or UN inspectors' lists of known locations holding chem/bio weapons. And follow up with a question if the site was under guard to monitor chem/bio agents still located at the facility.

Why I can't get these answers yet, can be answered by explaining the failure of the media to re-report their own damn stories during the time of invasion and occupation of Iraq.

[icecold]

ping

[Marine_Uncle]

"Egads, the leftists' wild-eyed plot for an October Surprise is melting like so much goo."
Yes. But the harms already done. To many people heard the CBS report, and have heard the hundreds of replays of the Lurch castigating GWB on this issue. That is all Lurch wanted to do. Plant the seeds of doubt, and then force GWB
to counter. Meanwhile all those millions of folks watching the original TV reports, and Lurches venom, now have it planted in their head that our military, therefore GWB, and Rummy etc., are at fault.

This is the problem all along. Lurch speaks, those that do not know the facts on given issue, think he may be right, then switch there channels to some stupid show and break out the fatty salty treats.
This is the has keeped the demos alive all these years.

[lyingisbetter]

I just watched Lou Dobbs on CNN. He had a weapons' inspector, a pentagon CNN official reporter, and others that he made sound important on his show. The question "why these weapons were allowed to stay in Iraq since 1992 and 93 when the UN found them," came up several times. They all blamed Bush. Said bad news for Bush. Their poll came up 77% saying this was an issue that would be okay being brought up one day before the election.
Questions that didn't come up:

1) Was Bush correct when saying Iraq had weapons of mass destruction now that we know Iraq did have them for a fact?

2) Why is Bush being blamed for weapons that disappeared before or during the time we went in? Is it not a good idea that we went in Iraq since the UN weapon inspectors and the Clinton administration found weapons and let Saddam keep them?

3) If there are so many questions still unanswered, why would Kerry use this information against Bush when there is every reason to blame the UN inspectors and the Clinton administration for the policy of "do nothing"?
Which seems to be Kerry's position with Iraq also?

4)If Clinton allowed these weapons to remain in Iraq, and the "insurgent murderers" are using these same weapons to kill our soldiers, shouldn't Clinton be held accountable?

ps: O'Reilly did not want the complete truth on this issue to come out tonight, why? Did O'Reilly stick up for Dan rather again? Is that what I saw?

[Diddle E. Squat]

The facility is part of a larger complex known as the (Queen) Latifiyah Explosives and Ammunition Plant al Qa Qaa

[nopardons]

Veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery interesting and yet another nail in the coffin of this story.

[conservativepoet]

I agree.