Posted on 10/29/2004 9:32:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
WASHINGTON — A U.S. soldier is coming forward Friday to say a team from the 3rd Infantry Division took about 200 tons of explosives from an Iraqi military facility soon after Saddam Hussein's regime fell last year.
The soldier will appear before reporters at noon, EDT. The briefing will be shown on the FOX News Channel.
The announcement is the latest twist in the mystery over what happened to 377 tons of explosives that the International Atomic Energy Agency said had disappeared.
The soldier's story comes as new videotape has surfaced that supports the contention that tons of the explosives were still at the base following Saddam's fall on April 9, 2003. U.S. officials had said they suspected the explosives were taken before U.S.-led forces took Baghdad.
Videotape shot by a Minnesota television crew traveling with U.S. troops in Iraq when they first opened the bunkers at the Al-Qaqaa (search) munitions base nine days after the fall of Saddam Hussein shows what appeared to be high explosives still in barrels and bearing the markings of the International Atomic Energy Agency (search).
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believe the story of--and side with the AEIA,,,,
OVER OUR VERY OWN TROOPS!!!
Major Pearson, you are a liar... a creepy liar... liar... liar... liar... liar... liar...
Just a preview of Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC tonight.
The major removed 200-250 tons of material from the site, which was but a small part of the 7,000 tons that was destroyed under the major's supervision.
The press is apoplectic, insisting this wasn't the same stuff! Unbelievable!
Soooo, how do they know it was 377 tons if it was not there?
Where did the newsweenies know it was 387 or 377 tons?
Also, if there is no (supposed) connection with Iraq and al qaeda, then why are these al qaeda guys being shot at and caught in Iraq where all these high explosives were stored?
basically Iraq was bulging with all kinds of weapons & ordinance and it's impossible to account for it all here & there while Saddam had been moving it all around so the media is trying to make it such that all of the stuff the military has found & destroyed is irrelevant while a speck of anything which they can claim might have been missed would be bad. This is the guy who's supervised removing tons & tons of this kind of stuff & the media is perplexed that he's saying "yeah I removed trucks of this & trucks of that, we had to use fork lifts, tractors trailers, etc."
I think it's good but the democrats will try to twist it.
The democrats will cry that the president wasn't holding the hand of the military. It will put Kerry into the position of saying that our troops can't be trusted and that war should be run from the whitehouse.
the media doesn't get it - relative to everything Saddam has had and what we've yet to find, this is relatively trivial operation.
he said he had accounted for it though the records were classified.
I had to stop watching becuase I didn't know what the hell was going on.
One of the first contractors to hit the ground there was Parsons, who set up a facility to dispose of ordnance. Thats all they do.
"he said he had accounted for it though the records were classified."
Okay ... I missed that.
Don't get me wrong, our troops are effective and do their jobs. Kerry will turn this around. He hates the military.
KEEPING THE FOCUS ON FOREIGN POLICY, NATIONAL SECURITY, 9/11, IRAQ, WMD, WOT, SADDAM HUSSEIN, and off the RATs Social Security demogaugery and.....BUSH WINS!!! PERIOD!
complicated issue. the united states can answer the question as you posed it. however, the question has to be taken into the broader context that involves time lines prior to our invasion. The united nations has a role, some say russia has a role and the united states has a role. the united nations is not being forthright and the russian's role is unknown to the MSM. piecing toghether all the pieces to the puzzle in the atmosphere of some uncooperative parties is a difficult task.
Rush is playing the pentagon briefing on his show now.
Mods pulled my thread for some strange reason, so here is the link for Rush's show which is on now.
http://www.kfi640.com/interactive/streaming.html
Can the Major say or not say..."we removed All the munitions at Al Quaqua"? Why is that so difficult to say? Was there anything left to loot?
I don't understand why they are pussyfooting at this press conference. Either you're ready to say what happened or your not. If not, don't hold a press conference. There's too much "uhhhs" and "hmmms" here. They look like they are fumbling for words. I say just shut up.
I would like to massage these reporters' knees with a Louisville slugger.
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