I'm dying here — I'm simply being crushed by the horse apples falling on my head right now! How in the world do you spin something like this MIA bomb fiasco? Well, the president is not sure but he is pretty sure he can find someone to blame.
Mr. Bush has pretty much been silent except for his speech today where he just couldn't resist finding some way to blast Kerry. He called Kerry's comments nothing but "wild charges" because there is no evidence that the weapons disappeared before or after we invaded!
I need to put this to bed right now. Listen up.
The administration is completely at a LOSS as to how this could happen — they have no answer. Immediately after the charges surfaced the president went into hiding — continually dodging reporters and questions until today when he emerged to start looking for someone to blame. I bet his eyse were swollen and his veins still pulsed from the caffeine that he used to keep his sorry ass awake all night working on his response.
How do you do that? Why does this president keep passing the buck instead of taking responsibility? HOW does he keep passing the blame for his actions? HOW do you people believe this pile of discombobulated senselessness that he spews on a daily basis? Spin is just not descriptive enough because it is beyond that.
If you investigate the timeline on this issue you will see that regardless of when our troops got there, the explosives were not in the hands of terrorists or Saddam before we invaded. They were in the hands of the IAEA and the United Nations — at least until we told them to get the hell outta dodge because we were unleashing the heat on that region.
Article comments
1 - andy marsh
no one knows for sure that those explosives were there in March. You're story line is all wrong. The mebedded NBC reporter said they didn't see any when they came through in April. Get your facts straight. and safely guarded by who? Hussein had already thrown the inspectors out? More christmas turkey stories..you know...full of shit?!?!
2 - andy marsh
the explosives were not in the hands of the IAEA...all they had done was wrap them up and put a seal on them. They had no guards over there! They packaged them and told Hussein not to touch them. fucking ny times...wy not find a MORE liberal source...oh yeah..that's right...THERE ISN'T ONE!!! Why not check the cBS time line too!!! They're probably dead nuts on each other!!
3 - andy marsh
Not only is this a bullshit story...but it's an 18 month old bullshit story!
4 - Yensid Tlaw
Well, since you have a direct line to the CIA why don't you tell me where you are getting your facts sir?
5 - andy marsh
the fact is...that it's 380 tons...that's about 10 tractor trailer loads of explosives...I'm pretty sure that with just a cursory inspection of the area they would have seen 10 TRACTOR TRAILER LOADS worth of explosives! They didn't leave the area totally unmanned..so I'm pretty sure they would have seen 10 tractor trailer loads of explosives leaving as well.
This happened over 18 months ago. It's not a new story.
6 - SFC SKI
Right Back Atcha, Andy, GO SAWX!
7 - Yensid Tlaw
Andy, it sounds like you need to get your facts straight sir and stop hoping for the story to turn out in your favor. Or I should say in the favor of your candidate. Hopefully it will all turn out in favor of the troops and our country but since you apparently didn't take the time to look at the timeline of events. Below is the link to the graphic and a blurb about how old this story is.
Bush's comments Wednesday were his first about the explosives. The interim Iraqi government earlier this month told the International Atomic Energy Agency about the missing cache. The IAEA informed the Bush administration about it on Oct. 15. The administration announced that the disappearance is under investigation.
Timeline
Story from yesterday
New story today
8 - andy marsh
you need to check your time lines with something other than the NY Times. try NBC...or ABC...or some other left leaning media giant...because the times...ain't with the times!
9 - Shark
EXTREME IRONY WARNING!
That an invasion based on a fear of WMDs (and nasty stuff accessible to terrorists) doesn't arrive with a list of known deposits of weapons to secure is just another astonishing example in a long, tragic series of BUSH BLUNDERS.
This level of this administration's blatant incompetence is amazing.
And once again, I submit that the history books will treat Bush and Iraq as the greatest deception and disaster in contemporary American history.
And no amount of BS by the Right can change that; just wait until the Pentagon whistle-blowers emerge after the election.
It's gonna be a blast -- no pun intended.
10 - bhw
That an invasion based on a fear of WMDs (and nasty stuff accessible to terrorists) doesn't arrive with a list of known deposits of weapons to secure
Actually, they supposedly *did* know about this deposit of explosives. An embedded reporter said that the troops she was with didn't search for the explosives or make sure they were secure.
So the question now is whether or not the explosives were still there when we arrived or if they'd been removed earlier. I think the answer may still be up for grabs.
11 - andy marsh
bhw...we're talking about 380 tons! I don't think it would take much of an inspection to locate 380 tons! and I don't think our military is that inept...but apparently jFk does!
If the Iraqi's had 18 wheelers, good ones, it would take at least 10 of them to move 380 tons.
I think our military just might have seen that many trucks moving explosives out of bunkers.
12 - bhw
I'm just tellin you what I read. The commander in Iraq said that the soldiers were busy fighting and didn't focus on searching for the explosives. Seems like the right thing to do: stay alive first, look for explosives second.
He also said that he doubted that the stuff was moved after the US was there. But nobody knows for sure as of right now.
13 - JR
I think our military just might have seen that many trucks moving explosives out of bunkers.
Sure. They'd never miss something that conspicuous.
14 - Bushdemocrat
This is the story that CBS planned on airing sunday night...not that they wanted to influence the election (memogate)...
In the grand scheme of things, the "missing" 380 tons is still LESS THAN 1/10 of 1% of the amount of ordnance that has been safeguarded or destroyed.
Spin everything...Iraq will still have an election...just like Afghanistan....