Iraq Site: Mystery Trucks Eyed

AP/CBS ^ | 10/28

[The_Reader_David]

Well, given the source, that about does it for this one. Even CBS (not to mention the AP) are reporting the massive holes in the Times' allegation.

[tomnbeverly]

1971... 2004 There is no difference between John Kerry then and now... Whats next are Americans going to be raising the flag upside down and burning it. Are they going to spit on our troops when they return from Iraq and Afghanistan. John Kerry has the campaign of hate.

[NutCrackerBoy]

Wow ... the Dims/media have succeeded in springing a certain kind of October surprise. This explosives controversy is a hot issue by its very nature, but somehow the springers of it have subliminally advanced the ridiculous notion that the outcome of the controversy should determine whether President Bush is fit to lead as CIC.

The more the issue thrashes, the better for what they are trying to do, because it puts the President on the defensive. They could care less whether their allegations are proven true.

[ProfShade]

"And that is up to the administration to best determine how to answer that question when that happened. But they don't have an answer, and that's what we're asking for," McCurry said.

--that's right, back away, back away very slowly from that tiger about to pounce on your campaign, McCurry.

What a hoot! Seems to me Kerry wasn't ASKING anything.

[chemical_boy]

Know what, if this story hadn't been leaked to the Net, debunking of this story wouldn't have happened until after November 2

[cyncooper]

Meanwhile, an armed group claimed in a video obtained Thursday to have obtained the explosives and warned that it will use them if foreign troops threaten Iraqi cities.

At the end of a tight presidential race dominated by national security issues both campaigns have raced to address the question of when the explosives went missing and whether they should have been better secured.

The Democratic nominee has seized on the story as proof of his contention that President Bush has mismanaged the war.

"The missing explosives could very likely be in the hands of terrorists and insurgents, who are actually attacking our forces now 80 times a day on average," Kerry said in Iowa.

It appears to me the "armed group" got their idea to issue their claim straight from John Kerry's insane ranting of the last few days.

[blackdog]

Kerry's mouth is the greatest asset of terrorism everywhere. He sure is the worst trained international diplomat I've ever heard. If it got him a free vote, he'd give the GPS coordinates of our nuclear football to North Korea.

[WI Conservative 4 Bush]

Exactly. We are fortunate that the NYT wanted to scoop 60 minutes as it has given us the time to de-bunk the original gist of the story.

This article is actually a very good summary of the story at present, IMO.

[IDRATHERNOT]

I'm actually quite pleased by this article...

Just seeing AP/CBS repeat the allegation that Russia helped move weapons out of Iraq is a HUGE leap forward.

[ProfShade]

You are so right! NYT saying today that they "had to run it Monday because the story was already leaked on the Internet." This broke up the coordinated one-two attack planned by 60 Minutes/NYT for this Sunday (two days before election).

When will the MSM start reporting on the real conspiracies? Like the vast left-wing conspiracies? Oh, sorry, dreaming again...

[gov_bean_ counter]

The first U.S. military units to reach the Al-Qaqaa installation did not have orders to search for the explosives.

However, they would have searched an area of sufficient size while establishing a perimeter. Would not the search for enemy would have taken them to unsealed bunkers.

[Woogit]

The Pentagon needs to stop studying and start setting the record straight!!! There is NO WAY that stuff went missing after America's finest hit the scene!

[gov_bean_ counter]

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[jimbo123]

Pootie Poot on Iraq WMDs:

Leaders of Russia, France, Germany meet on Iraq

VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Writer

Friday, April 11, 2003

(04-11) 18:12 PDT ST.PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) --

President Vladimir Putin said Friday he welcomed the fall of Saddam Hussein, but called the U.S.-led war in Iraq illegitimate and a threat to international law.

Speaking after a summit with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac, Putin signaled Russia was ready to cooperate with U.S.-led coalition forces on reconstruction, saying Moscow would consider writing off Baghdad's debts.

But Putin also criticized the United States for failing to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which he said was the only justification for war.

"Even in the most acute moment of the fight for its survival, the Iraqi regime did not use such (weapons)," Putin said. "If in the last moment of its existence it did not use them, it means they do not exist."

[gov_bean_ counter]

The Pentagon needs to stop studying and start setting the record straight!!! There is NO WAY that stuff went missing after America's finest hit the scene!

And there is no way they are just now evaluating those photos, either.

[ProfShade]

There are a lot of things I'm sure the administration knew about, but couldn't talk about, until, ummm, someone 'stepped in it' big-time. We'll see, we'll see.

[RightWhale]

Pictures of the missile batteries in Cuba and missiles on ships on their way to Cuba appeared in newspapers--front page above the fold--as final proof to the citizens that the Cuban Missile Crisis was real. The tracks of the ships as they turned back in the face of the blockade signaled the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I believe that the NYT got the scoop. Pictures of the trucks at el Qaqa should appear either Friday or in the Sunday Times.

[The_Reader_David]

Yup, it's been left to FReepers and bloggers to do the job the Founding Fathers imagined the press doing.

At least the desire for a 'scoop' is still strong enough as a balance to their leftist ideology that the MSM doesn't stay united in denying that the blogosphere knows. One network or major paper will always give the truth enough airtime or space, and the others have to follow.

[rocklobster11]

Check out the bias in this quote from the article:

Meanwhile, an armed group claimed in a video obtained Thursday to have obtained the explosives and warned that it will use them if foreign troops threaten Iraqi cities.

What they don't mention is that the terrorist group claims to have gotten hold of the explosives with the help of American intelligence. This is absurd to the point of being laughable.