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Originally Posted by daswig
Heh. Good point. The people crying "Bush screwed up, letting this stuff fall into the hands of potential terrorists" are the same people who cried "Saddam is not a threat!" when Saddam obviously had stuff that terrorists wanted to get their hands on...
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Think again, daswig....Bushco and the so called "liberal media", RNC "shill", CNN
caught in a pathetic attempt to rescue Bush. (No wonder that the NY Times did
not even bother to address this Bushco propaganda in today's followup to the
"missing 380 tons of high explosives" story!)
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<h2>Kerry Campaign: Latest Bush Excuse on Weapons Dump Evaporates</h2>
<a href="http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=38885">http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=38885</a>
10/26/2004 1:31:00 PM
To: National Desk, Political Reporter
Contact: Chad Clanton or Phil Singer, 202-464-2800, both of Kerry-Edwards 2004
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following statement on "Latest Bush Excuse on Weapons Dump Evaporates" was released today by the Kerry-Edwards campaign:
George Bush's continuing efforts to avoid responsibility for failing to secure 380 tons of highly dangerous explosives in Iraq just took another blow. The reporter who was actually traveling with the 101st Airborne in the report cited by the Bush campaign has clarified that the unit was not there to secure the massive weapons complex and it was merely a 'pit stop' on their way to Baghdad.
Try as it might, the Bush spin machine can not change the truth: the President is responsible for his catastrophic failures in Iraq and needs to personally address this issue.
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LINK TO VIDEO: http://www.shadowtv.com/redirect/not...9187acc5e84db5
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The following is a transcript of an interview aired on MSNBC today:
Amy Robach (AR): And it's still unclear exactly when those explosives disappeared. Here to help shed some light on that question is Lai Ling. She was part of an NBC news crew that traveled to that facility with the 101st Airborne Division back in April of 2003. Lai Ling, can you set the stage for us? What was the situation like when you went into the area?
Lai Ling Jew (LLJ): When we went into the area, we were actually leaving Karbala and we were initially heading to Baghdad with the 101st Airborne, Second Brigade. The situation in Baghdad, the Third Infantry Division had taken over Baghdad and so they were trying to carve up the area that the 101st Airborne Division would be in charge of. As a result, they had trouble figuring out who was going to take up what piece of Baghdad. They sent us over to this area in Iskanderia. We didn't know it as the Qaqaa facility at that point but when they did bring us over there we stayed there for quite a while. We stayed overnight, almost 24 hours. And we walked around, we saw the bunkers that had been bombed, and that exposed all of the ordinances that just lied dormant on the desert.
AR: Was there a search at all underway or did a search ensue for explosives once you got there during that 24-hour period?
LLJ: No. There wasn't a search. The mission that the brigade had was to get to Baghdad. That was more of a pit stop there for us. And, you know, the searching, I mean certainly some of the soldiers head off on their own, looked through the bunkers just to look at the vast amount of ordnance lying around. But as far as we could tell, there was no move to secure the weapons, nothing to keep looters away. But there was - at that point the roads were shut off. So it would have been very difficult, I believe, for the looters to get there.
AR: And there was no talk of securing the area after you left. There was no discussion of that?
LLJ: Not for the 101st Airborne, Second Brigade. They were -- once they were in Baghdad, it was all about Baghdad, you know, and then they ended up moving north to Mosul. Once we left the area, that was the last that the brigade had anything to do with the area.
AR: Well, Lai Ling Jew, thank you so much for shedding some light into that situation. We appreciate it.
LLJ: Thank you.
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