Posted on 10/29/2004 9:32:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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ABC radio news is reporting on the news conference now.
She's saying he did remove munitions but wasn't able to definitively able to say it was the same material as the IAEA tagged stuff.
thank you
What an honorable man.
That's the whole story in a nutshell! MSM and Kerry want the Pentagon to chase their tails looking for a needle in a haystack. Not one reporter asked why IAEA didn't destroy these explosives. Not one reporter asked why Sadaam had these explosives (under IAEA seal) during a period of sanctions! In other words the story is BS.
i share your frustration. kerry cannot project a vision for america or a strategy for getting there. rather all he can do is attack the tactics of the bush presidency. kerry is slime, but such is the world of politics.
So you think Kerry is an opportunistic gigolo? Whatever gave you that opinion.
This is a small portion of the CEA - Captured Enemy Ammunition. It's significant really for two reasons. One, you could use the HMX and RDX to make nuclear triggers, among many explosive items it can make. Two, you could use the issue to try to second guess the military and win the presidency. Since Kerry has mocked WMD as a bogus issue the first reason seems irrelevant; he sees the importance of number two and the MSM does too.
The Major was asked by a reporter if he could absolutely
state the two explosives that are in question were part
of ammo he carried to be destroyed. He couldn't.
Might not like the question from the press but it's a fair
question.
So over the past few days we have heard:
1) the insurgents took it.
2) Saddam moved it.
3) It was really only a few tons.
4) it wasn't there when we got there.
5) we removed it.
There are so many contradictory stories I don't know what to beleive.
And he gave an honest answer.
Kerry is helping the American people see what an armed and dangerous country Iraq was to the world under Saddam.
I don't think the American people are confident in Kerry's phantom "plan" over Bush's war on terrorism.
Does this press person think that barefoot looters were walking around al ka-ka stuffing their pockets while the military was there removing this stuff?
Pearson said the area was clear, there were no Iraqi's around when they were clearing the site. The underlying things is that they cleared the site, if the IAEA stuff wasn't there while they were doing this, means that it was removed before they got there, which means it was removed when Saddam had control of the area.
It's a no win situation for the press, because they had claimed the stuff was looted while we had control, and was being looted recently.
Max is honorable in a lot of ways. He raised 3 kids by himself after is wife ran off in the 60s. Plus he cared for his brother who had received a severe head wound in Korea till his death in the late 80s.
Do you have any proof that this video of them cutting the IAEA seal was Al Ka-Ka? I heard the reporter say this morning that it was a site NEAR Al Ka-Ka. "Near" is not the same site.
What a role model.
I don't think the MSM is going down without a fight.
They're going to spin it and omit and confuse the facts.
Kerry will continue to rail.
The question is, will this help or hurt Kerry?
I think it will hurt him.
That's because Kerry/MSM have concocted an October Surprise and you can't argue facts against fiction.
They guy was probably destroying munitions in Iraq night and day for many months. That he should remember the exact type of munitions he took from this one site is ludicrous. Bottom line - they destroyed 250 tons and much of it plastic explosives which covers the RDX and HMX category.
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