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Kerry's October Surprise: False report of "missing
Shootist3006
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Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the United Nations weapons inspectors have complained that 380 tons of very high explosives (HMX & RDX) disappeared from a storage site at the Al Qaqaa facility south of Baghdad. The UN inspectors claimed that the explosives were inventoried in January 2003, before the Iraq war. The story implies that the US failed to secure the explosives after the fall of Baghdad, although the Times NEVER said when the explosives went missing. The Kerry campaign has explicitly charged the Bush administration with failure to secure the explosives, citing the failure as further evidence of the need to elect Kerry as commander-in-chief. The Kerry campaign has been teeing up this story through Kerry's stump speeches during the past 7-10 days. The inference one may draw is that the NYT story was coordinated with the Kerry campaign, just as it now appears that last month's bogus CBS story using forged documents about Bush's National Guard service was coordinated with Joe Lockhart and others in the Kerry Campaign.
NBC news has reported that the 101st Abn was at Al Qaqaa on April 10, 2003, the day after the fall of Baghdad. NBC reported that the HMX and RDX were not there as of April 10, 2003 . Based on the evidence of eye witness reports from NBC as of 4/10/03 we may comfortably conclude that the Iraqis moved the HMX and RDX from the Al Qaqaa facility before the US arrived. Thus the implication of the NYT report is false.
Kerry and his shameless supporters will continue to spin the lie for the next week. Please inform your friends and family and all your e-mail correspondents that the NYT story is bogus and that NBC News (not the Republican National Committee or Bush/Cheney 04) has provided the proof.
NRA ENdowment, CRPA Life, Past President NRA Members Council
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NBC news has reported that the 101st Abn was at Al Qaqaa on April 10, 2003, the day after the fall of Baghdad. NBC reported that the HMX and RDX were not there as of April 10, 2003 . Based on the evidence of eye witness reports from NBC as of 4/10/03 we may comfortably conclude that the Iraqis moved the HMX and RDX from the Al Qaqaa facility before the US arrived. Thus the implication of the NYT report is false.
Kerry and his shameless supporters will continue to spin the lie for the next week. Please inform your friends and family and all your e-mail correspondents that the NYT story is bogus and that NBC News (not the Republican National Committee or Bush/Cheney 04) has provided the proof.
NRA ENdowment, CRPA Life, Past President NRA Members Council
Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem. Semper Fidelis
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I have heard the assertion repeated on several conservative talk shows, that when the 101st got there the explosives were already gone.
This is a false reading of the NBC news story.
Be careful guys when you repeat the Republican talking points, they are just as liable to tell a lie as Kerry is.