Posted on 10/25/2004 6:26:01 PM PDT by Timeout
KERRY SPOT
Jim Miklaszewski of NBC News pretty much dismantled the New York Times attack on behalf of Kerry today.
NBC News: Miklaszewski: April 10, 2003, only three weeks into the war, NBC News was embedded with troops from the Army's 101st Airborne as they temporarily take over the Al Qakaa weapons installation south of Baghdad. But these troops never found the nearly 380 tons of some of the most powerful conventional explosives, called HMX and RDX, which is now missing. The U.S. troops did find large stockpiles of more conventional weapons, but no HMX or RDX, so powerful less than a pound brought down Pan Am 103 in 1988, and can be used to trigger a nuclear weapon. In a letter this month, the Iraqi interim government told the International Atomic Energy Agency the high explosives were lost to theft and looting due to lack of security. Critics claim there were simply not enough U.S. troops to guard hundreds of weapons stockpiles, weapons now being used by insurgents and terrorists to wage a guerrilla war in Iraq. (NBCs Nightly News, 10/25/04)
If Jill Abramson, managing editor of the New York Times, had a shred of concern over her paper's reputation for getting the facts right never mind objectivity or fairness, she would be running the correction - or at least this blatantly contradictory information - in the giant headline font and above-the-fold location that today's story got. But I guess the interest in echoing the sentiments of Maureen Dowd is more important than getting it right at the Old Gray Lady.
Hi, Timeout:
Darn those Embedded Reporters!!!
That one certainly hit below the Waterline.
Jack.
I seem to remember this story during the main combat. Our troops searched for these things, and there was a big hullabaloo that we had found WMD in the press briefings..There were supposed to be those explosives there tagged with a IAEA seal but nothing was there. This stuff went missing under the UN's watch you can bet your underwear on it. I hope that we have some hard evidence to prove this because nailing Kerry and the UN is always a great Twofer.
I just love it when a rat plan falls apart...heheheh
welcome aboard Homey
But hey, we all knew it, and predicted it. Let them pay the piper.
ROFLMA that is a great button, I want one!
After the hollaring over Lawrence O'Donnell this past weekend, one would think they would play this straight if they had the report.
Good on ya for trying, and better for trying to get it right.
I find it easieat and quickest to make a doc in a Word program. I call mine FR Reply. I have the link html code saved in there, if I want to make a hot link in my post.
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Ah, then you missed DeConcini saying those explosives were weapons of mass destruction!
I guess that means Kerry will apologize tomorrow
HEY...ya' took my Ashlee dance.
LOL
Good one, My.
Thanks Tonk, for the ping.
Good for Sean. I noticed Fox fell right in with NYT reporting this as a proven story.
The NYT has made itself less credible than the cheap tabloids who report aliens meeting with the President.
It's funny - the NYT hit that NBC just destroyed failed in large part because it was drowned out by the mass media orgasm over the Bent One's appearance with Lurch today. These guys truly are in full panic mode. They're not even talking to one another and trying to coordinate the hits for maximum effect. They're just throwing stuff up as fast as they can.
All this time we've been trying to defeat the terrorists and the way to do so has been right before our eyes. We simply call them Al Qakaa! It's even more humiliating than pounding their pictures with shoes, putting panties on their heads or ridiculing their moustaches. Expect a quick surrender now that the word is out: they are Al Qakaa!
My bad Snarytart!
I meant to credit you, but forgot who I lifted it from as I ran off in glee!
Its damn funny snarytart!
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