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Al
Qaqaa Story Blows Up In Kerry's Face
Phil
Valentine
In
an attempt to embarrass the Bush administration, John Kerry
- with the assistance of the New York Times and CBS - launched
an October Surprise. They claimed that 350 to 380
metric tons of explosives went missing at the al Qaqaa depot
in Iraq under U.S. control. There were two major problems
with the story, however. First, it was 18 months old.
The depot was raided back in April of 2003 or before.
The other problem for the Kerry campaign was, in all likelihood,
the explosives were gone before U.S. troops arrived on the
scene.
As
they tried to drive home the gravity of the situation, Kerry
henchmen may very well have made the Bush administration's
case concerning weapons of mass destruction. Delaware
Senator Joe Biden told the Today Show, "The fact of
the matter is there's 350 tons of this stuff that is easily
moved, highly dangerous, easily used -- brought down the
[USS] Cole, one pound of it brought down Pan Am
103." One pound of it brought down an
airliner? In that case, the stockpile in Iraq, by
the Democrats own admission, was capable of bringing down
over 700,000 commercial airliners. If that's not a
weapon of mass destruction, what is?
Kerry sycophant
bloggers immediately blamed Karl Rove, saying they were
set up . . . again. They also blamed the 60 Minutes
bogus document debacle on Rove, saying he made them take
the bait. The said fact is, 60 Minutes had
planned to air this bogus Iraq explosives story two days
before the campaign. The New York Times got
wind of the story and scooped them. Not to be outdone,
NBC debunked the Times story by documenting
that their embedded reporter arrived with the U.S. troops
to find al Qaqaa virtually empty. Ken Dixon, a soldier
with the 101st, confirmed that story to Steve Gill and me
on WTN. He told me the few remaining containers of
weapons bore the markings of French and German. Could
this be one of the reasons why they refused to help us in
Iraq? Is this part of the Oil-for-Food scandal?
Stay tuned.
Read the story
on Joe
Biden's comments
Read the story
on NBC
and their embedded reporter
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