101st HQ'd in Al-Qaqaa for Two Weeks! (Vanity - Just spoke with someone who was there)

Soldier in Iraq with the 101st | 10-27-04 | DTogo

[DTogo]

As soon as this Al-Qaqaa story "broke" I thought of calling my friend (an officer and unit commander attached to the 101st during Operation Iraqi Freedom) to find out what really happened. Well, I just got off the phone with him and after joking that he was directing traffic for all the Iraqi trucks that looted explosives out of Al-Qaqaa, I asked him what this story is really all about.

Turns out several of his unit's men were with the 2nd Brigade that first arrived at Al-Qaqaa, secured it, spent the night, then moved out. The day they left, the 101st Division Command Staff (which my friend was attached to) then moved into Al-Qaqaa and set up temporary HQ for TWO WEEKS! While there he walked around and inside bunkers and saw all sorts of stuff stacked up and lying around: AK-47s, RPGs, rockets, bombs, ammo, and black powder used in making weapons as that's what the Al-Qaqaa facility was - manufacture and storage.

Did he see any IAEA sealed bunkers? No. Did he see anything other than field weapons/munitions? No. Did they allow Iraqis to drive trucks into HQ and help themselves to weapons? Gimme a break! Would the 101st Division Command Staff HQ next to 380 tons of HMX, RDX and PETN during combat? I would think not.

My friend's parting thoughts were that this was likely Kerry's "October Suprise" to be leaked right before the election, leaving the Bush team no time to rebutt or explain, but it got leaked too early. Turns out this highly explosive story is one big DNC dud.

[DTogo]

Despite being separated for 13 months while he was in Iraq kicking @ss with the Screaming Eagles, my friend and his wife are both voting Bush-Cheney '04!

[finnman69]

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[SteveMcKing]

The MSM is baffled by their sudden inability to just MAKE THINGS UP, like they got away with for 40+ years.

[al44]

Gotta love the Screaming Eagles!!!

[goodnesswins]

Hmmmm....does anyone in the MEDIA KNOW this???

[Gibtx]

retribution is a wonderful thing.....

[isthisnickcool]

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[rocklobster11]

Any way to get that friend to tell his story to Hannity or Rush or Ingraham?

[Ron in Acreage]

Kerry thinks your"friend" is an incompetent failure for not guarding weapons that weren't there. I,m just waiting for him to start accusing him of war atrocities.

[stylin19a]

Can this info be gotten to FOX or Hannity etc....? If somebody can get DOD to officially verify the 101st was there for 2 weeks from 4/09/2003 ish,it sticks the wooden stake through that vampire's heart.

[doug from upland]

Thanks for the report.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Further news is breaking that is making the NYT and See?-BS look even MORE wrong than usual. And the kicker is that the Times is now using THIEVES to corroborate the story!

[daybreakcoming]

just MAKE THINGS UP, like they got away with for 40+ years.

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It just doesn't bear thinking about how history would probably have been changed if only we had known the true nature of MSM

[hlmencken3]

bump!

[Peach]

The more that comes out, the worse Kerry looks.

Now if the president can order the release of that Dept. of Defense videotape, or at least mention it on the stump, that shows convoys of trucks leaving the facility, before we got there, we're golden.

[LADYAK]

again President Bush should say, "I thought that Kerry was saying that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq" and now they are saying we didn't protect them - here is another flip flop.

Another thought how many years has John Kerry been in the Senate he could have introduced all kinds of bills to protect this country and for all the other items he is promising...why did he wait until now....he obviously is not a man of action...but an opportunist.

[Wolverine]

Thanks for this report.

 

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[ALWAYSWELDING]

It is YOUR DUTY to call all of the talk shows with this knowledge your buddy had FIRST HAND. Take a vacation day tomorrow and call. I'm not joking, I'm dead serious. You could sway A LOT of voters listening with this story. Not to mention the hosts will reiterate your claims after you get off the phone. Just do it!

[daybreakcoming]

thank you for this imput from your friend. Never having seen his face and seeing kerry's way too many times, who do you think I believe? A Screaming Eagle or a lying freakn traitor?

I think your friend's parting thought was on the money. Can you imagine how long and hard the dnc planned this in conjunction with SeeBS only to have it blow up in their faces too soon?

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

Thanks for the heads up. Very good info.!

[Sonar5]

If true, get his info to Sean Hannity, he had a guy on there who wasn't very sure of himself.

Send his info to Jim Angle over at Fox also...

Do your Duty.....

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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If we returning Vietnam Vets had had the Internet and conservative Talk Radio to counter the KERRY-FONDA-HAYDEN-RODHAM-CLINTON-CRONKITE Axis of Evil with...

the once Free South Vietnamese would still be Free today.

As it is it's now...


Little Saigon leads the Way: Cools to KERRY

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1254530/posts

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[daybreakcoming]

I thought the guy was telling what he knew but Hannity was pushing.

[ASA Vet]

[No_Doll_i]

Just keeps getting louder and funnier doesn't it?

[LUV W]

Sean Hannity did have a former soldier from the 101st on his show this afternoon, and was supposed to have him again tonight on Hannity and Colmes, and he told nearly the same story. He, however, wasn't there for 2 weeks. It would be nice if this guy's buddy could go on and back up the story, and that of Dana Lewis.

[elizabetty]

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10111

Great article about Russia and the Iraq weapons from 2003

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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JOHN KERRY = Enemy of Vietnam Vets

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1320


...and of Freedom loving people everywhere.

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[Keith in Iowa]

[tinfoil hat mode]

Here's the poop. Karl Rove did this. He knew what the rats were planning, and leaked it early, forcing the Slimes & SeeBS into running with a bogus story.

Rove is friggin' brilliant!!
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[Freesofar]

{tin foilhat LOL} I think Kerry stole the HMX so he'll have something to blow himself up with on Nov 3{/Tinfoil hat }

[DTogo]

High Explosive * ping *

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

AMMOGATE PING!

[mylife]

I thought the parked ther for 24 hrs?

2 weeks?

[nomad]

Really, and what about his buddies in the 101st who were there as well?

[mylife]

So 101st left a contingent to follow the column for 2 weeks!

[mylife]

thanks Dtogo

[queenkathy]

Some radio station was offering time for anyone who was there to call their show and tell their story...Can't remember who..Was is Hannity's radio show?

[nopardons]

bttt

[mylife]

I love the internets!

[cookcounty]

Fort Campbell bump ( my son is garrisoned there when he's not in Iraq ).

[I'm ALL Right!]

bttt

[cookcounty]

"Would the 101st Division Command Staff HQ next to 380 tons of HMX, RDX and PETN during combat?"

Understand that I find this report highly interesting and devastating for the Prokerryites (single-celled brainless creatures), but it is also true that Al QaQaa covers many square miles and 11,000 buildings. So the fact that the101st HQ was there doesn't mean that they were necessarily "next to" the "380 bunkers."

[SevenofNine]

MAn rack your friend and his Screaming eagles buddies on smackdown Demos on reall truth of this story rack it

[TexKat]

DRUDGE: Russia tied to Iraq´s missing arms; Pentagon: Weaponry relocated before war

[TexKat]

No Check of Bunker, Unit Commander Says (another hit piece from NY Slimes on NYTrogate)

Colonel Anderson, who is now the chief of staff for the 101st and spoke by telephone from Fort Campbell, Ky., said that he did not see any obvious signs of damage when he arrived on April 10, but that his focus was strictly on finding a secure place to collect his troops, who were driving and flying north from Karbala.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"I love the internets!"

Don't forget to tell Al Gore thanks! LOL

[pbear8]

That offer was directly from a radio host on a thread with the offer in the title. I'll look around.

[pbear8]

Here it is -

**CALLING ALL 101st AIRBORNE MEMBERS, AIRTIME TO TELL YOUR STORY**

Posted by KMC1

On News/Activism 10/26/2004 2:41:23 PM PDT · 69 replies · 1,787+ views

WMCA - New York ^ | 10.26.2004

CALLING ANY 101st Airborne troops: New York Talk Show Host Kevin McCullough will give airtime to any from the 101st who will step forward. Anyone who was in the 101st when you secured the AlQaQaa facility on April4-10, 2003. He wants to hear from you. Please contact via kmc@wmca.com. KMC will give you air-time on Wednesday in New York City and around the world to tell us the truth about what you did in the securing of the munitions dump that is now the subject of controversy and false representation by John Kerry. PLEASE PASS THIS ON to anyone you...

[NoLibZone]

Here is the post where a Radio statiohn was looking for such first hand accounts: **CALLING ALL 101st AIRBORNE MEMBERS, AIRTIME TO TELL YOUR STORY**

[Valin]

Thanks! You should send this to Hugh Hewitt he was hitting this pretty hard tonight.