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Originally Posted by athletics
If you watched CNN last night, they had stories about missing explosives all night. And now you say CNN is on Bush's side? Sure. Makes total sense. Bush hasn't gotten too many breaks from the media at all, maybe he is due one.
This story will probably loose cred and help Bush. It reminds people of the explosives Iraq had and the danger they posed.
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CNN headlined this misleading story last night, and into this morning.
It is misleading because it gives the impression that the 101st Airborne troops
were the first on the scene, when there are credible reports that 3rd Infantry
Division troops were at the same location 5 days earlier, on April 4, 2003.
It is misleading because it gives the impression that the 101st Airborne were
searching the El Qaqaa complex for weapons and that they confirmed that
the 380 tons of high explosives were already missing from the site. The fact
is that the 101st Airborne troops and the NBC imbedded reporter merely
stopped at El Qaqaa to camp overnight on their way to occupy Baghdad.
CNN did not get their facts straight and they provided convenient "cover"
for the Bush Disinfostration!
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/26/iraq.explosives/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/26/iraq.explosives/index.html</a>
<h2>Report: Explosives could not be found when U.S. troops arrived</h2>
NBC News says its crew was embedded with soldiers at time
Tuesday, October 26, 2004 Posted: 11:16 AM EDT (1516 GMT)
(CNN) -- The mystery surrounding the disappearance of 380 tons of powerful explosives from a storage depot in Iraq has taken a new twist, after a television news crew embedded with the U.S. military during the invasion of Iraq reported that the material could not be found when American troops arrived.
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......
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CNN's manipulation of an NBC reporters April 10, 2003 report from the war
in Iraq facilitated an effort to push the blame for not securing the 380 tons
of explosives away from the Bush administration. Now the Drudge, CNN, RNC
disinformation campaign to turn a Bushco failure into a smear on the Kerry
campaign is exposed for what it is.......pathetic, desperate, untrue, propaganda:
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<a href="http://www.rnc.org/RNCResearch/Read.aspx?ID=4990">http://www.rnc.org/RNCResearch/Read.aspx?ID=4990</a>
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Tuesday, October 26, 2004
<h2>Kerry Uses Incomplete Report To Attack President; NBC Embeds Debunk Missing Weapons Story</h2>
Something To Yak About - Kerry Uses Incomplete Report To Attack President; NBC Embeds Debunk Missing Weapons Story
If this was John Kerry's October Surprise, it fell a little flat. We're talking about the now de-bunked New York Times report Monday about missing explosives in Iraq - the story John Kerry used to launch a full-scale attack on the president. But it turns out the NYT report was just plain wrong. Seems NBC News had reporters embedded with the military when troops arrived at the weapons facility from which these explosives supposedly disappeared, but reported on April 10, 2003 that the facility didn't have any of the high explosives crowed about in the NYT report.
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