Lost Weapons in Iraq?

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  1. Christopher Green

    Christopher Green New Member

    Check out Drudge's info on this:

    This site
     
  2. Mr. Engineer

    Mr. Engineer member

    Oh yea, Matt Drudge -

    Problem is Drudge is no more informed than the local bartender. People talk about the liberal media - my god man - the media is really a bunch of Cons who like to point fingers.

    Oh wait - isn't Matt boy a Chickenhawk as well - humm - I think so. (The Hannity, Bush, Cheney, etal crowd - you know - the type that lets other people get killed because they are cowards)
     
  3. Orson

    Orson New Member

    Mr. Engineer:

    I heard the NBCNews audio from the original embed report (April 10, 2003) today on the Lars Larson radio show: apparently, Drudge's account is legit - and the NYTimes, AP, etc. bias, illegit.

    NBC's Jim Miklaszewski dismantled the New York Times' "expose" on their evening show, Monday:

    “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)

    This confirms that the materials had already been moved or looted from the site before American troops arrived at Al-Qaqaa. After finding the IAEA seals already broken and no high-priority materiel on site, the Americans moved on to more pressing problems -- like combat and securing lines of communication.


    Yet the NYslimes today (Tuesday) editorializes as though there were no facts to correct: "A particularly horrific case of irony involves weapons of mass destruction. It's been obvious for months that American forces were not going to find the chemical or biological armaments that Mr. Bush said were stockpiled in Iraq. What we didn't know is that while they were looking for weapons that did not exist, they lost weapons that did."
    http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/26/opinion/26edt2.html

    As John Burns wrote in Editor and Publisher, "there is corruption in this business [of journalism]."

    And Hugh Hewitt comments:
    "The idea that a disappeared store of munitions in Iraq could somehow help Kerry in this last week is one of the more remarkable miscalculations of recent political history, but one that inevitably flowed from the left's attachment to Kerry. They really believe Kerry would make a better Commander-in-Chief than George W. Bush. Because they believe in Kerry's vision of an American-French entente and a pervasive 'global testing' of American foreign policy initiatives, and in Kyoto and the ICC, , they assume that a majority of Americans can be made to believe it.

    Ha HA HA HA HA!

    -Orson

    PS - CNN continues to pander the New Truth without admitting the falsehood of the old one! Hats off to the Owellian MSM:

    "NBC News reported that on April 10, 2003, its crew was embedded with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division when troops arrived at the Al Qaqaa storage facility south of Baghdad.

    "While the troops found large stockpiles of conventional explosives, they did not find HMX or RDX, the types of powerful explosives that reportedly went missing, according to NBC.

    "The International Atomic Energy revealed Monday that it had been told two weeks ago by the Iraqi government that 380 tons of HMX and RDX disappeared from Al Qaqaa after Saddam Hussein's government fell.

    "In a letter to the IAEA dated October 10, Iraq's director of planning, Mohammed Abbas, said the material disappeared sometime after Saddam's regime fell in April 2003, which he attributed to 'the theft and looting of the governmental installations due to lack of security.'

    "Baghdad fell on April 9, 2003. According to NBC, troops from the 101st Airborne arrived the next day to find that the material was already gone."
     
  4. DCross

    DCross New Member

    You are so biased and uninformed that you don't even realize that this does NOT look good for Bush. Kerry is already suggesting mismanagement here.

    You are very good, however, at finger pointing and name calling. It's like debating with my 10yo daughter. At any point you might respond with, "So So, suck my toe!"
     

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