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« on: October 26, 2004, 12:38:29 PM »
60 MINS PLANNED BUSH MISSING EXPLOSIVES STORY FOR ELECTION EVE

News of missing explosives in Iraq -- first reported in April 2003 -- was being resurrected for a 60 MINUTES election eve broadcast designed to knock the Bush administration into a crisis mode.

Jeff studmuffiner, executive producer of the Sunday edition of 60 MINUTES, said in a statement that "our plan was to run the story on October 31, but it became clear that it wouldn't hold..."

Elizabeth Jensen at the LOS ANGELES TIMES details on Tuesday how CBS NEWS and 60 MINUTES lost the story ...[which repackaged previously reported information on a large cache of explosives missing in Iraq, first published and broadcast in 2003].

The story instead debuted in the NYT. The paper slugged the story about missing explosives from April 2003 "exclusive."

An NBCNEWS crew embedded with troops moved in to secure the Al-Qaqaa weapons facility on April 10, 2003, one day after the liberation of Iraq.

According to NBCNEWS, the explosives were already missing when the American troops arrived. [VIDEO CLIP]

It is not clear who exactly shopped an election eve repackaging of the missing explosives story.

The LA TIMES claims: The source on the story first went to 60 MINUTES but also expressed interest in working with the NY TIMES... "The tip was received last Wednesday."

CBSNEWS' plan to unleash the story just 24 hours before election day had one senior Bush official outraged.

"Darn, I wanted to see the forged documents to show how this was somehow covered up," the Bush source, who asked not to be named, mocked, recalling last months CBS airing of fraudulent Bush national guard letters.

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« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2004, 12:43:12 PM »
RPM you and kerry have been PAWNED
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« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2004, 01:00:56 PM »
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RPM you and kerry have been PAWNED


How much to get them out?

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« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2004, 01:36:09 PM »
that will be the end of the story, no apology or correction, just the hope the average joe is too dumb to figure out the dems tried to, and in many cases succeeded to fool him again...
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« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2004, 01:46:59 PM »
OK, where do I start? How about a source to begin with? I did a Google News search and it failed to return any results. Second, you slam CBS for running a story too fast without investigating it. Now, you slam CBS for not jumping on the story without investigating it. Which way do you want it?
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« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2004, 01:49:08 PM »
john heinz-kerry
    On the trail Monday, Kerry called the incident "one of the great blunders" of the war.

"Terrorists could use this material to kill our troops, our people, blow up airplanes and level buildings," Kerry said. "The unbelievable blindness, stubbornness, arrogance of this administration to do the basics have now allowed this president to once again fail the test of being the commander in chief."
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will heinz-kerry apologize to the american people for his "blindness, stubbornness, arrogance" in calling this "one of the great blunders" of the war?

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« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2004, 02:01:40 PM »
Apparently there were no explosives back when the weapons inspectors spent a week in al Qaqaa back in Jan. '03.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/01/24/sprj.irq.inspections/index.html

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« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2004, 02:06:14 PM »
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OK, where do I start? How about a source to begin with? I did a Google News search and it failed to return any results.


Here is a little proof of the truth

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« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2004, 02:08:41 PM »
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OK, where do I start? How about a source to begin with? I did a Google News search and it failed to return any results. Second, you slam CBS for running a story too fast without investigating it. Now, you slam CBS for not jumping on the story without investigating it. Which way do you want it?


JBA seems to get it, you don't.:p

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« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2004, 02:10:20 PM »
rpm
I was speaking about skerry not his buds in the news orgs, I already know they are above reproach ....

this is another political M-80 which blew up in skerries face, too bad - he won't get another Purple Heart from the wound

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« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2004, 02:14:33 PM »
Thanks for the link Dago, but it was the wrong one. That report mentions NBC, not CBS. I bet this is a Drudge or NewsMax story or the link would already be posted.
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« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2004, 02:48:57 PM »
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How much to get them out?


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« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2004, 02:53:39 PM »
rpm... how many times does cbs and the liberal media have to hit you on the head before you quit sticking your mug out to be clobbered?   took ya a week to admit you were conned on the 60 minutes memo thing.

you have an extreme tolerance for embarssment.

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« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2004, 03:46:46 PM »
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Apparently there were no explosives back when the weapons inspectors spent a week in al Qaqaa back in Jan. '03.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/01/24/sprj.irq.inspections/index.html

MiG


Where in the article you linked states that? I may need a new prescription for my glasses 'cause I couldn't find it.

Here's a link for you:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1098677410357

"At the Pentagon, an official who monitors developments in Iraq said US-led coalition troops had searched Al-Qaqaa in the immediate aftermath of the March 2003 invasion and confirmed that the explosives, which had been under IAEA seal since 1991, were intact. Thereafter the site was not secured by U.S. forces, the official said, also speaking on condition of anonymity."
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« Reply #14 on: October 26, 2004, 04:18:23 PM »

In February 2003, a month before the invasion, ElBaradei told the United Nations that Iraq had declared that "HMX previously under IAEA seal had been transferred for use in the production of industrial explosives."


so now we know where they went/are, they are being used in the reconstruction of Iraq.

nothing to see here , move along move along.