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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Selectric II who wrote (652685)10/28/2004 11:00:22 AM
From: Doug R  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
You left out the last sentence in the article.

"The footage is now in the hands of security experts to see if it is indeed the explosives in question."

shrub's pisspoor planning in Iraq shows his incompetence. Even the lies he's rolled out trying to deflect the spotlight on his incompetence have further demonstrated his incompetence.

Even other reporting at the time shows:

(April 5)
washingtonpost.com
In the first of yesterday's discoveries, the 3rd Infantry Division entered the vast Qa Qaa chemical and explosives production plant and came across THOUSANDS of vials of white powder, packed three to a box. The engineers also found stocks of atropine and pralidoxime, also known as 2-PAM chloride, which can be used to treat exposure to nerve agents but is also used to treat poisoning by organic phosphorus pesticides. Alongside those materials were documents written in Arabic that, as interpreted at the scene, appeared to include discussions of chemical warfare.
This morning, however, investigators said initial tests indicated the white powder was not a component of a chemical weapon. "On first analysis it does not appear to be a chemical that could be used in a chemical weapons attack," Col. John Peabody, commander of the division's engineering brigade, told a Reuters reporter with his unit.

And what was the white powder? Here's what the Associated Press was told the same day ...

A senior U.S. official familiar with initial testing said the powder was believed to be explosives. The finding would be consistent with the plant's stated production capabilities in the field of basic raw materials for explosives and propellants.

RDX and HMX are white powders.

So after a quick search what they found mainly were THOUSANDS of vials of white powder that turned out to be an explosive.
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