Posted on 10/28/2004 7:46:41 AM PDT by SmithL
AS THE New York Times put it Wednesday, "The New York Times, working with the CBS News program '60 Minutes', reported that the (380 tons of powerful) explosives at al Qaqaa, mainly HMX and RDX, had disappeared since the invasion." There's one little problem: The Times doesn't know that the high-power explosives "disappeared" after the invasion. And it doesn't speak well for the Gray Lady that if fails to recognize, three days into this story, that it is reporting as fact assertions its reporters haven't nailed down.
"I've never seen such a flagrant intervention from the media," Rep. Peter King, R-New York, told me over the phone Wednesday.
"60 Minutes" already has a bad story in its basket -- the phony National Guard smear on President Bush. The New York Times attributed the missing weapons to looting before interviewing anyone from the Army's 101st Airborne Division, King noted. Worse, the source of the story is International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Mohamed El-Baradei, whose reappointment has been opposed by the Bush administration.
There is no proof that Saddam Hussein or his Baathist lieutenants didn't raid the stock before the invasion. Yet days into the story, the New York Times is sticking with its first impression.
Oh, and here's a little item you have to go to the New York Sun to read: U.S. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer had asked the IAEA to remove the al Qaqaa bombs in 1995 -- but the IAEA refused. As Duelfer told the Sun, "The policy was if acquired for the WMD program and used for it, it should be subject to destruction. The HMX was just that. Nevertheless, the IAEA decided to let Iraq keep the stuff, like, they needed more explosives."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
If it were up to me, I would have just stood off and shelled ever ammo dump in Iraq as soon as we were within range. It's not like anybody is ever going to use this stuff. Just stand back and watch the secondaries!
The Chr - Chr - Chronicle being f - fair?!?
What the . . . ?
I'm waiting for Rod Sterling to appear.....
Yes and no, there was I would expect a reluctance to do so because of the risk of dispersing biological weapons
...there's a signpost up ahead.
And the Red Sox win the World Series? I'm looking for two more signs.
Yeah, you're probably right...
I would confess that I like watching things go "BOOM!" , but who doesn't? (from a safe distance of course, and as long as nobody gets hurt).
Saunders seems to be the Chronic Ill in the same sense that Safire is the NYT. The way conservative books are selling, there seems to be a need for a non-urinalist on a major paper, someone out of the liberal lockstep.
Debra Saunders is the "token" conservative at the Chron.
Gee. I have noticed a funny trend. We rediscover the same thing each day.
On the threads last night, we laid out all the info.
WHY the WMD's were gone, WHO took them, WHEN, and HOW, and WHERE THEY WENT.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030205-1.html#39
http://www.2la.org/syria/wmd.html
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10111
The MSM had articles back in 2003 with info showing we watched the Russians and convoys of trucks carting the WMD's out of Al Qa Qaa, and the US forces even attacked one convoy.
The public has a very shortterm memory, apparently.
President Bush didn't need to come out and defend the missing explosives. It has been public record for over a year.
On another note, MEMORY.
Remember the POW's in VIETNAM?
We formed a committee (Senate Committee on POW/MIA's) that went, came back, said NO POW's LEFT IN PRISONS. We knew then we were being lied to.
MISSING IN ACTION and RAMBO were two movies made about this, where the SENATOR in charge DIDN"T WANT to find any POW's, Didn't want the hero bringing any POW's found, back to embarrass him.
What was the name of the SENATOR who was CHAIRMAN of that committee?
Saunders has long been the token right winger at the Chron.
Don't worry though, any conservative thought in that town is like a fart in a hurrican.
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