Also, since he's known about them since 1995 why did he wait until 2004 to show ANY concern about them? El Baradei is a slick operator. He plays a shell game with weapons.
Posted on 11/02/2004 3:29:32 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
.......Some administration supporters accuse ElBaradei of orchestrating the scandal over 377 tons of missing explosives at the Al Qaqaa military base to help Kerry defeat Bush, and they suggest the case will deepen distrust between Washington and the United Nations.
"ElBaradei would like nothing better than to see President Bush lose ..., " said Clifford May, president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, a conservative-leaning Washington think tank.
........"The people I've talked to in the administration are absolutely convinced that ElBaradei is trying to defeat Bush, and what happened (last) week means they will do anything it takes to make sure that he doesn't get another term," said David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington.
ElBaradei, in an Oct. 1 letter to the U.N. Security Council, said that widespread looting of weapons in Iraq had occurred. Responding to ElBaradei's request for more information on the subject, Mohammed Abbas, an official of the Iraqi Ministry of Science and Technology, reported that explosives at Al Qaqaa were lost after the U.S. takeover because of "theft and looting of the governmental installations due to lack of security."
The issue caught fire on the campaign trail after the letter was leaked to the New York Times. Kerry accused Bush of "incompetence" for not keeping the caches of explosives under control, and administration defenders suggested that ElBaradei might have coaxed Abbas to complain to the IAEA.
"Did ElBaradei in some way persuade the Iraqi official that this letter was needed at this time because of the election?" asked May. "This fuels the suspicion that ElBaradei is attempting to manipulate an American election by spreading false information."
ElBaradei called the accusations "total junk." ...
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Maybe because such explosives are used to detonate nuclear weapons. Or perhaps because he is a rank(ing) UN official who wanted to jump on the bash-Bush bandwagon.
The missing explosives are high tech explosives commonly used to set off nuclear explosions.
Send that muslim nuke enabler back to Yemen or wherever the hell he came from.
El Baradei leaked the phony "news" about the ammo dump to the NY Times with one purpose in mind: to trip up Bush with an October surprise.
But like Blix, the UN is clueless about what's on the ground in Iraq. So like CBS, the NY Times has unwittingly helped Bush with this clumsy attempt at electoral manipulation.
There is no question that foreigners from bin Laden to ElBaradei are casting their votes for Kerry.
Exactly.
It is akin to staying with a spouse who beats us nightly.
First thing on the agenda for the new year. Freeze our UN contribution.
Same thing I've been asking. Also, since he's known about them since 1995 why did he wait until 2004 to show ANY concern about them?
ELIMINATE our UN contribution.
It is long past the time that we should be throwing the UN out on it's collective ass.
The Security Council is only interested in securing their own individual places in the financial world, not in doing what is right.
El Baradai was only the name that would be recognized by the Lame Stream Media to properly hype the story.
It is time to tell the UN to either piss or get off the pot. If we have to go it alone, then we do it OUR way.
Well...the Germans want a seat on the Security Council and the UN needs a new building...
Also, since he's known about them since 1995 why did he wait until 2004 to show ANY concern about them? El Baradei is a slick operator. He plays a shell game with weapons.
World Communists on American Soil Suck BTTT
Are the old West German government buildings in Bonn being used for anything now?
After today's election there has got to be a way to start a big grass roots campaign to some how curb the U.N. powers of and over the U.S. or get the U.S. out of the U.N. and the U.N. out of the U.S.
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