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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (63484)	10/28/2004 11:11:47 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 89467

Dishonest ad "It seems that Monday's groundbreaking New York Times story on missing explosives in Iraq was certainly not groundbreaking and may not even be true," William Kristol writes at the Weekly Standard's Web site (www.weeklystandard.com). "The allegations that nearly 400 tons of 'high explosives' were missing from the [Al-Qaqaa] arms dump are based on charges leveled by Mohamed [ElBaradei], chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The claims are old and increasingly suspect. But that hasn't kept Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign from using the story in a new television ad and in virtually every stump speech and media appearance over the past two days," Mr. Kristol said. "Now, however, the Kerry campaign admits that the information that is the basis of Sen. Kerry's statements and his campaign advertisement may not even be true. Pressed on Tuesday afternoon about the accuracy of the allegations on Fox's 'Big Story with John Gibson,' Richard Holbrooke, a senior adviser to the Kerry campaign, said: 'You don't know the truth and I don't know the truth.' He later underscored this point: 'I don't know the truth.' "That minor issue hasn't kept the Kerry campaign from creating a television ad based on what may well be untruthful claims." Mr. Kristol added: "It also now turns out that CBS '60 Minutes' was planning to echo the New York Times story two days before Election Day. So what we have is an attempt by the New York Times, CBS, and a U.N. agency to work together to promote a very likely false story to damage President Bush's re-election prospects. Perhaps no one should be surprised that the liberal media and the United Nations are willing to go to quite extraordinary lengths to promote Kerry's prospects against Bush, but their behavior is not the issue. The issue is Kerry's willingness to advance allegations that his own campaign acknowledges may not be true."

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (63484)	10/28/2004 12:22:52 PM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 89467

“It's extremely rare that we don't get the recorders back. I can't recall another domestic case in which we did not recover the recorders.” What's that tell you? A few have posted that this would be an event-driven week. :•) Sioux