BLOGS FOR BUSH - NY Times "Explosive" Story Entirely Bogus
Here is the killer bit on the bogus NY Times story:
DAVID ASMAN: Well a full week before the 101st airborne visited the weapons facility, members of the third infantry division were there. Bret Baier, live from the Pentagon.
BRET BAIER: The key is the time line. Let's start with the IAEA. They sealed and tagged at least some of the 377 tons of missing explosives at this facility. And now in March 8, 2003, they went back to the site. The IAEA says they checked on some of those explosives at the site but did not see all of explosives. They did not check on all of them. They leave and the war starts, and the next date is April 3, that is when the Third Infantry division arrives at the site. There you see the front gate. This is seven days before Dana Lewis and the 101st Airborne division gets there. They engage Iraqi forces who are firing on U.S. troops from inside the facility. The facility is open, they're getting engaged by Iraqi forces inside the facility. The Third I.D. takes them out and they do a primary search and they are not looking specifically for the IAEA marked materials, but it's not noted in any of the commander's reports. And then the 101st moves in and they do cursory searches and they move on, and nothing is noted. The next date is May 8, 2003, when the 75th [Expedition? Exploration? Transcript unclear] Task Force comes in. They search the bunkers and don't find any of the marked material. U.S. commanders point out if you're to believe that all of this was looted between April 11 and May 8, that's 28 days, when convoys are moving up and down the road on those very roads, moving to Baghdad, the U.S troops are pushing forward. It would be tough to get 28 truckloads they say, out of that facility without being engaged by U.S. troops on those roads during that war, because at the time they point out that they were engaging anybody that was suspicious and didn't stop for a check. Now today on the campaign trail in Florida, vice president Cheney addressed the issue of missing explosives, saying John Kerry is playing arm chair general and is ‘not doing a good job of it.’
That via KerrySpot...
The story, good people, was a fabrication by the NY Times from start to finish - and what this means, given the way Kerry jumped on the false story, is that John Kerry, working with the NY Times and in conjunction with a foreigner (the head of the IAEA El Baradei) who opposes President Bush, has knowingly spread a lie in the hopes of throwing the election to himself. |
