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.
ROFL! I do love with the MSM turns on each other. Even if it's only temporary.
Well well well.
The embedded reporters were a brilliant idea and a Godsend.
(I'll never forget the images, the reports, the being there with our troops as they went in and the cameras were there).
Excellent news.
NY Slimes Jayson Blair alert!!!
You get the last laugh...as we all will November 2.
The old gray whore should apologize and so should her pimp, John Kerry... who jumped all over this story to politize it.
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Oh, I didn't know. You double posted : o lol
It's in their blood. Anti-conservative and anti-American. They did the same to Nixon and Reagan.
Doesn't this mean that the UN lied about Saddam having these weapons?
It would take a convoy of almost 100 tractor trailers to move the HE and 4 to move the WMD.
If Rove can't use this to knockout Kerry and his left wing Garmara, he ain't worth a crap.
Thanks for that info
Kerry mentioned in his Interview with Katie Courtic this morning that Hannity interviewed the President last week
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Now watch how you sling that term "Old Gray Lady " around!
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The HE was never there.
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Thank GOD this is coming out. When my son saw this over the weekend he was STEAMING.(101st AB infantryman)
MSNBC is (color me shocked) telling the truth. If this doesn't get enough factual coverage the 101st AB via DoD will release a press statement.
Tori Clarke...was brilliant:)
The troops arrived to find none of the high explosives back in 2003. So the NY SLimes headlining today about us "not securing" the ammo dump rings hollow, as does any text on the Old Red Lady's pages.
The NYT's has moved on to the Geneva convention, or should we say back? now. Their BIG story bombed today, so onward to the next worn out attack. LOL
The MSM is going to look back and realize what they have done one of these days. They revealed how far they are willing to go to destroy this President, and in effect, immunized him. They don't have the power to destroy this man.
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