[pabianice]

Reporters are ripping-out the throats of Pentagon spokesman, Army Major on scene. There is not even a pretense of fairness from the press. They are tearing-into the spokesmen purely to help Kerry. Major reports that his unit removed about 200 tons of HE. Reporters are harshly demanding proof that any of this was part of the "missing explosives." DOD guy notes that there may be no more than 3 tons missing. Reporters, in turn, rip into both men, claiming that none of this explosive the Major removed is any of the "400 missing tons."

This news conference is turning into another bad day for Bush. Major says he is not qualified to say whether the ammo he removed is HMX or RDX. Why did they bring him to the conference in the first place? This is ugly and gives Kerry more film to use against Bush. WFT?

[Strategerist]

This news conference is turning into another bad day for Bush. Major says he is not qualified to say whether the ammo he removed is HMX or RDX. Why did they bring him to the conference in the first place? This is ugly and gives Kerry more film to use against Bush. WFT?

Yep. Terrible move not to wait until they had someone specifically saying HMX or RDX was removed or destroyed.

[TN4Liberty]

There is not even a pretense of fairness from the press.

Last question for the officer at the scene: "Can you state definitively that the material you removed was the same material that was under the IAEA seal?" I wonder why that would matter?

[texasbluebell]

Reporters are ripping-out the throats of Pentagon spokesman, Army Major on scene. There is not even a pretense of fairness from the press.

It's so obvious to anyone with half a brain that the media is the enemy!

[Avenger]

No, this is good. This shows that the military did indeed have orders and that they had a plan; it shows that very early on they were destroying the explosives/munitions at Al Qaqa. Kerry can no longer make the claim that President Bush blew it. If there is a problem with the clean-up operations at Al Qaqa (and I don't believe there was) then Kerry has no choice but to lay the blame squarely at the feet of the U.S. military.

[r9etb]

Please whine in silence and leave your wet diapers at the door.

[Krodg]

This news conference is turning into another bad day for Bush. Major says he is not qualified to say whether the ammo he removed is HMX or RDX. Why did they bring him to the conference in the first place? This is ugly and gives Kerry more film to use against Bush. WFT?

If it wasn't the missing stuff, it's because it was already gone. He doesn't need to be an expert to know that he destroyed what he did find.