Originally posted by rpm
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.
The Army unit that found the storage bunkers was accompanied by an embedded reporter from NBC news. The reported high explosives were missing (April of 2003). They were still missing when the ordnance team officially inspected the site.
NBC News reported Monday night that one of its reporters was embedded with the 101st Airborne. She watched the troops conduct what can be described as a "cursory search" of the premises on April 10, and found a great deal of conventional ordnance, but no RDX or HMX.
IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei reported the disappearance to the U.N. Security Council on Monday, two weeks after he said Iraq told the nuclear agency that the explosives had vanished from the former Iraqi military installation as a result of "theft and looting ... due to lack of security." Note that ElBaradei is seeking to be reappointed to his position, but Bush opposes this citing previous deceit in public statement to the press and the UN. Supposedly, the IAEA tagged the RDX and HDX during one of its inspections.
In May 2003, members of the Iraq Survey Group, a weapons inspection team, began work at Al-Qaqaa. It conducted 25 inspections, which covered 37 large bunkers and more than 80 other buildings. No IAEA-tagged high-explosive material was found.
Try this
link. So, ElBaradei knowingly lied to protect his own position, yet again demonstrating that the UN is bound and determined to interfere in a US Presidential election. This, by the way, is reported to be a violation of the UN Charter.
Since the L.A. Times reports that CBS news intended to air this false report two days before the election, can anyone state that CBS is not deliberately trying to undermine the election? Maybe the FCC should have a good look at their licence after the election... Fortunately, the NY Times spilled the beans early, reporting the story as fact. So, both are discredited. Seems like Kerry has hitched his wagon to yet another falling star.....
To quote Kerry on this issue: it's"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."
When asked by MSNBC's "Hardball" host Chris Matthews if Bill Clinton urged Kerry to push the issue of Iraq or more domestic issues during a joint campaign event in Philadelphia on Monday, Kerry said Clinton was "very concerned about this ammo dump thing."
"He thinks that -- and I think that -- represents the way in which this administration has miscalculated again and again and again in Iraq," Kerry said in the interview, which aired Monday night. "And this is serious, because just a small amount, if only a few tons of it fell into the hands of terrorists, it's more than enough to blow airplanes out of the sky, buildings to the ground, it's deadly serious. And it's so basic to what we should have been doing over there."
What about Edwards? "The reality is that they didn't secure them. The Bush administration didn't secure these materials. They haven't taken the steps necessary to be successful in Iraq. And we're seeing the consequences of it every single day."
The reality of it is that both were duped... Again.
My regards,
Widewing
