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.” (NBC’s “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.
Yep
And I want them to have a long SAFE life under freedom , not socialism
I think it is time we CONTACT NBC with APPRECIATION emails for reporting the TRUTH for once.......
address anyone?
It's entirely possible that the place was looted after we secured the area and before we conquered Baghdad. It's also possible that it was looted by the Republican Guard and fedayeen before the U.S. even reached Al Qaqaa. It would surprise me if Saddam's men planned a guerrilla war and DIDN'T steal these explosives before the Americans reached them.
I have said for months that half of the mainstream media will NEVER back a sure loser. It's their survival instinct.
Also, does Kerry now contend that we should have invaded sooner? The ultimate flip flop! Bush can use this material to bang Kerry over the head with for say, oh, 7 more days.
I want that for them too...as I want that for my future grandchild/children as well.
Thank God for Rush,Sean, and the Free Republic....I half heard Rush comment on this on the radio today but missed the general issue that was going on...then when I heard Sean hammer DiConcinni with it at the end of the show it started clicking....Freepers filled in the blanks.
Now I'm gonna go crash, it's getting awfully late.
Why is the U.N. nuclear agency suddenly warning now that insurgents in Iraq may have obtained nearly 400 tons of missing explosives -- in early 2003?NBCNEWS Jim Miklaszewski quoted one official: "Recent disagreements between the administration and the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency makes this announcement appear highly political."
The IAEA is attempting the old HansBlix manuever on Bush, but facts are stubborn things.
Same with KTVU news here in the Bay Area.NO mention of the NBC scoop on the Times fiasco.Why is this story being stonewalled by these "professionals"
Lots of Clinton cheerleading tho!
If Karl Rove designed this story as a trap for dem dirty ops as well as the forged National Guard memo, then he is perhaps the most brilliant political manager I have ever heard of.
I have often wondered how to combat the lies, smears and twisted spin of the MSM and their dem allies. These kinds of 'blow-up-in-your-face' events are educational. But it can go both ways like possibly the Lehman "I never signed that citation" event with a lead-in investigation by DOD of Kerry's service. Fortunately the latter never seemed to get traction and I don't know why.
Whoever posted about the person with the idea to embed reporters in Iraq getting a medal is right, a medal or at least a service award is in order.
I remember seeing a list of FR acronyms, but I see there is a need for a comprehensive guide to FR culture, including inside jokes such as "hugh" for "huge", "series" for "serious", "tinfoil hat", etc. These were new to me too. If you're going to use common Internet misspellings, make sure to use "loose" for "lose", as in "I'm going to loose my mind!" That one drives me crazy, I might really just "loose" my mind.
[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.]
Of course the weapons were removed before the US got there! So Kerry is bashing Bush for not invading Iraq sooner, to secure weapons from terrorists Kerry said were never in Iraq, weapons which the UN and IAEA didn't think were deserving of destruction. That's the only logical *out* for Kerry. Is one last whopper of a flip flop in store for America? STAY TUNED!
It will be interesting to see if he bows out on the rest of the planned forays now that he's been duped to come out and spit forth what the wind of truth has just blown back in his face...
I wonder if he'll crawl back home "upon my doctor's advice"
No one would doubt that part. He looks like he should be home...
Thank God for Rush Limbaugh.
He did his opening monologue on this, correcting the NY Slimes and the front page "news" as being 19-months old.
And put it in perspective - that our troops have destroyed over 400,000 TONS of material. This "missing" stuff, at the beginning of the Iraq war, represents less than 1% of what we've found and destroyed. So, big deal.
I wrote to Karen Hughes and Dan Bartlett - speechwriters for Pres. Bush and suggested that somewhere in his speech each day, he needs to do a truth-telling sequence, titled "lies from the Kerry Camp today". I think it has a certain ring to it. Flip-flops are one thing; but out and out lies need to be labelled as such, or the President's numbers will start to slide downward if he doesn't counter the lies and attacks of sKerry. He has to do it, no matter how much he might not want to. He has to go more negative; has to counter these accusations, or the sKerry lies will stick in the voter's minds. Too many people listen to the MSM and believe what they hear/see and will go into the voting booth and vote for the wrong guy.
I'm also fasting and praying until Nov. 2. The more I hear pollsters like Rasmussen this Morning say that we will not know the results by Midnight Nov. 2, - more like 4-5-6 days later, the more we need to counter these lies from Hell.
Pres. Bush needs to win in a clear landslide - heavy on the popular vote, and heavy on the Electoral vote, so that there can be NO doubt about the clear mandate that he has to be President for four more years.
Please, dear God, grant us your mercy and give us the President we need - George W. Bush.
I was just listening to the replay of Britt hum's Special news hour and the pamel discussed this, thinking that this was going to really help Kerry.
HAHAHAHA!
[the IAEA informed U.S. mission in Vienna on Oct. 15 about the missing explosives at Al-Qaqaa. He said national security adviser Condoleeza Rice was notified "days after that," and she then informed President Bush. ElBaradei told the council the agency had been trying to give the U.S.-led multinational force and Iraq's interim government "an opportunity to attempt to recover the explosives before this matter was put into the public domain. "But since the disappearance was reported Monday in The New York Times, ElBaradei said he wanted the Security Council to have the letter . . . Diplomats said there was nothing to suggest that ElBaradei, who had irritated the Bush administration before the war by insisting there was no evidence that Saddam had revived his nuclear program, had intended to keep the report a secret until after the Nov. 2 election.]
"If Iraq had not happened, they would be lending full throated support to the M. Moore diatribes of US malfeasance in Afghanistan. You can be sure of that."
If Iraq had not happened, the NYT would have had a front page story with the latest explosive reasons why we SHOULD HAVE gone into Iraq- and how vulnterable we are today because Bush was indecisive and hesitant.
Andrea Mitchell mentioned it was against the law? Andrea Mitchell??? another wonder
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