Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (22174)	10/26/2004 7:16:13 AM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 27181

Kerry Attacks Regarding Missing Explosives Countered by NBC Talon News October 26, 2004 HOUSTON (Talon News) -- Speaking aboard Air Force One en route to Colorado, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan fielded questions from reporters regarding the disappearance of 380 tons of explosives from a military complex south of Baghdad. The Democrats were quick to seize upon the story, but claims by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry were refuted later on Monday by NBC News. In stepping through the timeline of events regarding the discovery and announcement of the missing explosives, McClellan said that the Iraqi Interim Government told the International Atomic Energy Agency on October 10 that there were "approximately 350 tons of high explosives missing from Al Qaqaa in Iraq." McClellan added that the Iraqi government informed the IAEA because the munitions "were subject to IAEA monitoring, because they were considered dual-use materials." "[T]he International Atomic Energy Agency informed the United States mission in Vienna on October 15th about ... this cache of explosives that was missing because of some looting that went on in Iraq toward the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom, or during and toward the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom," McClellan explained. Officials believe that the explosive materials disappeared sometime around April 2003. The missing agents consist of HMX and RDX explosives, which are key ingredients in plastic explosives such as C-4 and Semtex. The White House press secretary added that the first priority of the administration "was to make sure that this wasn't a nuclear proliferation risk, which it is not." "These are conventional high explosives that we are talking about," McClellan said. "And the president wants to make sure that we get to the bottom of this. Now, the Pentagon, upon learning of this, directed the multinational forces and the Iraqi survey group to look into this matter, and that's what they are currently doing." The presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) was quick to criticize the Bush administration for what it perceives as "the most grave and catastrophic mistake in a tragic series of blunders in Iraq." "How did they fail to secure nearly 380 tons of known, deadly explosives despite clear warnings from the International Atomic Energy Agency to do so?" Kerry campaign strategist Joe Lockhart said in a statement. "And why was this information unearthed by reporters -- and was it covered up by our national security officials?" Sen. Kerry added, "George W. Bush who talks tough and brags about making America safer has once again failed to deliver. After being warned about the danger of major stockpiles of explosives in Iraq, this administration failed to guard those stockpiles -- where nearly 380 tons of highly explosive weapons were kept. Today we learned that these explosives are missing, unaccounted for and could be in the hands of terrorists." However, a report by NBC News counters Kerry's claims that the weapons disappeared because of post-war troop levels. In fact, the NBC News report shows that the HMX and RDX explosives were not present even when coalition forces first arrived at Al Qaqaa. NBC News on Monday aired a report from Jim Miklaszewski who said that on April 10, 2003, only three weeks into the war, "NBC News was embedded with troops from the Army's 101st Airborne as they temporarily take over the Al Qaqaa weapons installation south of Baghdad. But these troops never found the nearly 380 tons of some of the most powerful conventional explosives, called HMX and RDX, which is now missing." McClellan also emphasized that the weapons, although reported to the IAEA recently, have been missing for some time. "Remember, early on -- during and at the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom, there was some looting," McClellan recalled. "Some of it was organized that was going on in the country. There were munitions caches spread throughout the country. And so -- but these are all issues that are being looked into by the multinational forces and the Iraq Survey Group." Copyright © 2004 Talon News -- All rights reserved.

To: American Spirit who wrote (22174)	10/26/2004 7:25:01 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

cnn.com NBC News reported that on April 10, 2003, its crew was embedded with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division when troops arrived at the Al Qaqaa storage facility south of Baghdad. While the troops found large stockpiles of conventional explosives, they did not find HMX or RDX, the types of powerful explosives that reportedly went missing, according to NBC.

To: American Spirit who wrote (22174)	10/26/2004 8:53:49 AM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

"Why not just use Satan?" Because Wayne lost a bet to him and welched there also. Message 20662366 Sioux

To: American Spirit who wrote (22174)	10/26/2004 9:58:54 AM
From: Wayners	Respond to of 27181

Wrong!

To: American Spirit who wrote (22174)	10/26/2004 11:25:17 AM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

Hey dopey, The weapons were already be gone before the U.S. troops even arrived. It was Kerry's ally the U.N. that blew it!

To: American Spirit who wrote (22174)	10/26/2004 12:16:14 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

Sprite, the big news today is France's corruption in the oil for food program. Money going back and forth to secure Saddam's oil for the big corrupt French oil company, and its corrupt president Jacques Chirac. This is the country your boy Kerry wants to emulate, and with whom he would have to deal in order to get the "global" concent he thinks is so important for the United States to stand up for itself. If France and Germany were on the up and up, they would have collaborated with Bush when he asked them, and the coalition that secured freedom for Iraq would have included them. But France is a strange nation, quick to bite the hand that feeds it and quick to turn over the garbage can and feast thereof. Heck they wouldn't even let our planes fly over them when we went after Qadaffi. France is a no-show all the way around. If it had the sense God gave a gopher, it would be on board with the rest of the freedom loving countries. France won't cooperate, not because it hasn't been asked but because it is an opportunistic slob of a nation. Kerry can't see that. You clearly are delusional about Drudge as well. His website does nothing but link to the websites of news sources and columnists. He doesn't try to create news, he just illuminates it. Sprite, if you think 380 tons of explosives is a big deal I'll prove you wrong. I've hidden a crate of oranges somewhere in the state of California. There's a $1000 bill in that crate, underneath the oranges. Now go find that thousand dollar bill. See how ridiculous it is? Your boy Kerry is the biggest no-show of all. His attendance record in the senate is just one indicator of that.