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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: jlallen who wrote (149805)10/29/2004 2:13:23 PM
From: Michael Watkins  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
So what?

1. Why did it take so long to find someone willing to come forward with a story, any story, to help diffuse the situation?

2. They can't even confirm what they took. This story is devoid of useful detail - its a fluff piece because of the heat that is directed at the Bush admin.

3. Rumsfeld, highly partisan, runs the military, in case you had not forgotten.

4. "Bunker after bunker" of explosives were seen by the Channel 5 embedded reporters and some of it filmed. There was no security. Those are facts backed up by both military commanders on the scene as well as the media who were there. That angle of the story has tons more weight than a press conference at the Pentagon, conveniently if not hurriedly arranged 4 days before election day.

foxnews.com
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WASHINGTON — A U.S. Army officer came forward Friday to say a team from his 3rd Infantry Division took about 250 tons of munitions and other material from the Al-Qaqaa (search) arms-storage facility soon after Saddam Hussein's regime fell in April 2003.

Explosives were part of the load taken by the team, but Major Austin Pearson was unable to say what percentage they accounted for.

The Pentagon believes the disclosure helps explain what happened to 377 tons of high explosives that the International Atomic Energy Agency (search) said disappeared after the U.S.-led invasion.
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