Monday, October 25, 2004
Need More Evidence...
...of the incompetence of this administration?
Well look no further.
t r u t h o u t - Massive Cache of Explosives Missing in Iraq
This is disgusting! How are they going to spin themselves out of this one? The reaction I hear is that, "well there were lots of sites we could have guarded all over Iraq". Uh.... did all of these sites have 380 TONS of explosive material?!?!?!?!?!!?!!! Please! Don't even try to spin this one, this is just terrible, and inexcusable. This is the height of incompetence!
Vote these bunch of idiots out of office!
We need a change! Vote John Kerry for President!
Well look no further.
t r u t h o u t - Massive Cache of Explosives Missing in Iraq
"Nearly 380 tons of explosives are missing from a site near Baghdad that was part of Saddam Hussein's dismantled atom bomb program but was never secured by the U.S. military, the United Nations said Monday."These explosives could be the very ones that are being used against our soldiers RIGHT NOW!!!
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"...U.S. weapons experts feared the explosives could be used in bombing attacks against U.S. or Iraqi forces, which have come under increasing fire ahead of Iraq's elections due in January."
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"A Western diplomat close to the IAEA, who declined to be named, said it was difficult to understand why the U.S. military had failed to secure the facility despite knowing how sensitive the site was."
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"Vienna diplomats said the IAEA had cautioned the United States about the danger of the explosives before the war, and after the invasion it specifically told U.S. officials about the need to keep the them secured."
This is disgusting! How are they going to spin themselves out of this one? The reaction I hear is that, "well there were lots of sites we could have guarded all over Iraq". Uh.... did all of these sites have 380 TONS of explosive material?!?!?!?!?!!?!!! Please! Don't even try to spin this one, this is just terrible, and inexcusable. This is the height of incompetence!
Vote these bunch of idiots out of office!
We need a change! Vote John Kerry for President!
posted by digitaljay @ 3:37 PM MST
2 Comments:
On Tue Oct 26, 10:37:00 AM MDT,
digitaljay said...
God you are an idiot Rep Bud. Sheesh. You're argument that the IAEA was monitoring the "weapons" before the war and even they don't know where they are is just plain stupid, and a desparate argument.
The IAEA WAS in charge of the TONS of EXPLOSIVES, not weapons (which cannotes some guns or something) as you say. BUT they had to leave the country for their safety when we began the war, and they informed us that this facility was there and needed to be guarded now that we were starting the war. My god! How you can now blame the IAEA for not NOW knowing where the material is, even though they had no way of maintaining their power to watch this material once we started the war.
Its called responsiblity Rep Bud, you know that thing that all you hypocritical Republicans claim is your top issue, RESPONSIBILITY. Now this administration needs to take some.
And boy oh boy you are further an idiot because this story does NOT validate your idiot president's claim that saddam had a nuke program at the time that we started this war. These were explosives that were under the control of the IAEA because they took over these materials as a condition of the end of the first gulf war!
And DUDE wake up!!! All the reports including the final word (as called, by shrub, before it was done, to try to discredit the mid term report), the Dulfer Report says that there were no current WMD programs or weapons in Iraq. Yowsers! Stop taking the party stance and open your eyes to reality!
The IAEA WAS in charge of the TONS of EXPLOSIVES, not weapons (which cannotes some guns or something) as you say. BUT they had to leave the country for their safety when we began the war, and they informed us that this facility was there and needed to be guarded now that we were starting the war. My god! How you can now blame the IAEA for not NOW knowing where the material is, even though they had no way of maintaining their power to watch this material once we started the war.
Its called responsiblity Rep Bud, you know that thing that all you hypocritical Republicans claim is your top issue, RESPONSIBILITY. Now this administration needs to take some.
And boy oh boy you are further an idiot because this story does NOT validate your idiot president's claim that saddam had a nuke program at the time that we started this war. These were explosives that were under the control of the IAEA because they took over these materials as a condition of the end of the first gulf war!
And DUDE wake up!!! All the reports including the final word (as called, by shrub, before it was done, to try to discredit the mid term report), the Dulfer Report says that there were no current WMD programs or weapons in Iraq. Yowsers! Stop taking the party stance and open your eyes to reality!
On Tue Oct 26, 11:24:00 PM MDT,
digitaljay said...
Wow! Laughable, that you want me to get the "truth" from Drudge. A story dreamed up by Michael Moore? Is that really what you are going with? Ok good luck with that, sounds like you have been listening to Rush too much. Don't you know that man is a big fat idiot? Anyways, here's a few bits of what the embedded reporter Lai Ling Jew had to say about when they visited the site.
"We stayed overnight, almost 24 hours. And we walked around, we saw the bunkers that had been bombed, and that exposed all of the ordinances that just lied dormant on the desert.
AR[Anchor]: Was there a search at all underway or did a search ensue for explosives once you got there during that 24-hour period?
LLJ: No. There wasn't a search. The mission that the brigade had was to get to Baghdad. That was more of a pit stop there for us. And, you know, the searching, I mean certainly some of the soldiers head off on their own, looked through the bunkers just to look at the vast amount of ordnance lying around. But as far as we could tell, there was no move to secure the weapons, nothing to keep looters away. But there was - at that point the roads were shut off. So it would have been very difficult, I believe, for the looters to get there.
AR: And there was no talk of securing the area after you left. There was no discussion of that?
LLJ: Not for the 101st Airborne, Second Brigade. They were -- once they were in Baghdad, it was all about Baghdad..."
Hmmm, yeah so that is pretty locked up then huh? They knew that things were already missing because they did a thorough search.
Anyways, let just see this story develop. All I am pointing out is that the administration has spun this every which way but loose since the story broke, and that seems like they think they may have something to be worried about.
But who knows. Anyways, yawn.
"We stayed overnight, almost 24 hours. And we walked around, we saw the bunkers that had been bombed, and that exposed all of the ordinances that just lied dormant on the desert.
AR[Anchor]: Was there a search at all underway or did a search ensue for explosives once you got there during that 24-hour period?
LLJ: No. There wasn't a search. The mission that the brigade had was to get to Baghdad. That was more of a pit stop there for us. And, you know, the searching, I mean certainly some of the soldiers head off on their own, looked through the bunkers just to look at the vast amount of ordnance lying around. But as far as we could tell, there was no move to secure the weapons, nothing to keep looters away. But there was - at that point the roads were shut off. So it would have been very difficult, I believe, for the looters to get there.
AR: And there was no talk of securing the area after you left. There was no discussion of that?
LLJ: Not for the 101st Airborne, Second Brigade. They were -- once they were in Baghdad, it was all about Baghdad..."
Hmmm, yeah so that is pretty locked up then huh? They knew that things were already missing because they did a thorough search.
Anyways, let just see this story develop. All I am pointing out is that the administration has spun this every which way but loose since the story broke, and that seems like they think they may have something to be worried about.
But who knows. Anyways, yawn.