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.
See #734. Something doesn't add up.
Yes, but he's a CONSERVATIVE whacko.
Thank your lucky stars he ain't Soros. Then Washington residents would choose between Pravda and the Daily Worker.
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Thanks Fidelio - I read the whole latest AP report ... here in my opinion is the key part for us...
"Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said coalition forces were present in the vicinity of the site both during and after major combat operations, which ended May 1, 2003 - and searched the facility but found none of the explosives material in question. That raised the possibility that the explosives had disappeared before U.S. soldiers could secure the site in the immediate invasion aftermath."
Report should have said - the explosives could also have been moved much earlier, as early as March 2003 or even Jan 2003.
I hope we will get an even more definitive statement from the Pentagon, i.e. there was NO HMX/RDX at Al Al Qaqaa in April 2003!
********are you getting that off to Drudge, Rush, Hannity, FOX et al???
Good grief! Who has to work to make sKerry look bad when he does such a good job just by showing up! Even Clinton can't make him look good--only makes things worse for the dork! "If I Only Had a Brain" Kerry just goes with whichever way the wind is blowing no matter what the facts say--in spite of what the facts say!
The answer is simple: They hate President Bush and they will run with any story to damage him.
BWA HA HA HA!
"Falsely and deliberately distorting the words of journalists?"
Turnabout is fair play, methinks. Both on Kerry and the journalists.
No can read----paragraphs are your friend.
I heard on the Beltway Boys two Saturdays ago that Hawaii might elect a Republican Representative to the House of Representatives too. :)
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)
It's important to distinguish here between conventional ammo etc and the HMX and RDX. No one disputes the fact that there were conventional weapons at Al Qakka. The uproar in all the MSM and DNC outlets was based on the incorrect assumption that the Army found RDX and HMX and did nothing to secure it. As is pointed out in the above report- when the 101st arrived- IT WAS GONE. Make sense now?
Sadly, yes, you are mistaken, IMHO. You see, they don't encumber themselves with facts. For them, an October surprise is limited only by their imaginations, access to old IBM Selectric typewriters and, of course, their badly damaged credibility.
That's for sure. I don't see how this can do anything but finish off Kerry. I liked the Bush line today about 'Monday morning quarterbacking'.
That would be a Rush "See, I Told You So" moment right there.
I am confused, just watching replay of Brit's show --- David Folk Thomas came on the LIVE update and told the same "old" story re: the weapons cache. Still not reporting what Drudge has
WOW. Saddam had agents on the border moving banned materials there? OCTOBER SURPRISE, HERE WE COME! :)
Sorry, mainiac...this is an old running gag by a Rhodes Scholar, who speaks illiterate . His name is AlBaby. Look it up, relax, and we do respect your dad...and your dad's dad...ad infinitum!!
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