Posted on 10/29/2004 8:28:02 AM PDT by rocklobster11
Edited on 10/29/2004 8:39:41 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Brit Baer on Fox News just announced. Coming up in 1 hour.
Update: 3ID soldier to have briefing about collecting and destroying 200 tons of explosives on April 13.
I wish I could see Joe Lockhart's face right now.
Didn't Fox quote an earlier UN report that said the number wasn't 360,000 tons but closer to the 200,000 tons amount?
Anyone know?
"fox dude saying it is confusing"
in other words, they don't understand it because it takes some amount of thinking. Being of slow mental reflex, the MSM will claim they were deliberately being misled by the Bush Pentagons people. These reporters have the IQ of a grapefruit.
ABC Radio says the Major could not definitively say these were the same explosives discussed in the previous stories. Sad.
Be careful, you don't KNOW that....just sayin'.
Only in a world where the media was fair. Unfortunately, they still have all weekend to spin the fact that the Army could not confirm that they had destroyed the 300 tons in question.
He and ALL OF OUR MILITARY MEN AND WOMEN--they go into harms way--even into a media frenzy--and come out on top. If anyone has his e-mail address or some way of getting in touch, let us all know!!!
They said they destroyed 200+ tons of explosives.
Originally the report was 380 was missing. However, the FNC report proved that 137 tons of RDX was missing before we got there. 380-137=243. So this falls in direct line with the amount supposedly missing. In my opinion all is accounted for. Except the amount the russians or Iraqis smuggled out before January.
If Dirita is right, we are almost 1/2 way thru that 1,000,000. I think we are doing great, so far. I just loved Dirita pointing out, repeatedly, that we are having a debate over 1/1000th of the munitions destroyed so far... and with your 1,000,000, we are talking about an even smaller fraction.
IDIOTS on the left, all of them.
One house had 7,000 1000-round crates of 7.62x39 ammo?
Musta been a big house!
God, I love a man in a uniform!
Kerry the plagerizer is getting his just desserts! I hope the crap piles so high on him that not even the shyster lawyer Edwards can't even wipe the crap off Kerry!LOL
Internet Home Of The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
Tons Of Explosives Missing In Iraq
Kerry knows Where They're At
(AB) Several hundred tons of conventional explosives are missing from a former Iraqi military facility that once played a key role in Saddam Hussein's efforts to build a real big bomb, the U.N. nuclear agency confirmed Monday.
International Agency To Bad Fireworks chief Mohamed El Stu Peed will report the materials' disappearance to the U.N. Security Council later Monday, spokeswoman Melissa Numbnuts told The Assciated Press.
"On Oct. 10, the IAEA received a declaration from the Iraqi Ministry of Science and Technotricks informing us that approximately 350 tons of high explosive material and 5 packages of firecrackers and 2 boxes of sparklers had gone missing," Numbnuts said.
In Washington, Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry's campaign said the Bush administration "must answer for what may be the most grave and catastrophic mistake in a tragic series of blunders in the history of mankind and the universe."
"How did they fail to secure ... a hole bunch of unknown, deadly explosives despite clear warnings from the International Agency To Bad Fireworks ?" senior Kerry adviser Joe Lockhart said in a statement.
Kerry told the International Agency To Bad Fireworks the materials had been stolen and looted because of a lack of security at governmental installations, Kerry said.
"We do know what happened to the explosives and when they were looted," he told AP. “We have proof from several of Saddam friends and the Foreign Minister of France that they saw George W. Bush unloading the material and putting it on a flatbed truck then driving away with the 380 tons of explosives on his way to Saudi Arabia where Halliburton took control of it and then moved it to Africa and sold it on the black market..
Before the war, inspectors with the Vienna-based IAEA had kept tabs on the so-called "dual use" explosives because they could have been used in July 4th Celebration in the States or to detonate a thermos nuclear weapon.
In other news: If Yasar Arafat wins the Boston Marathon, I predict a Kerry landslide!
AIEEEEEE!!!!
IT'S BACK!!!!
No..I could not get the title to copy..Discrepencies in amount of explosives missing...
Anybody who thinks Kerry is done with this is nuts.
Unfortunately, this massive confusion comes at the worst possible time for the Bush administration, as this thing is neck-and-neck.
I'm afraid that this is not going to be helpful to Bush's chances.
Yes. But the reporters conveniently didn't hear that part.
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