And The Story Unfolds

Today, there was an update to the story about the missing explosives at Al Qaqaa. Apparently, reporters that traveled with the 101st Airborne Division have a video of the Al Qaqaa Facility which reveals the now mysteriously vanished weapons still inside the bunkers on April 18th, 2003: nine days after Sadaam Hussein fell--with the I.A.E.A. labels on them at that. This would go COMPLETELY against all that the president has been saying in his defense: That these explosives were missing BEFORE the fall of Bahgdad.

Ahh...and the plot thickens. The reporter gave coordinates to his colleagues so if he got lost they would be able to locate him. Lo and behold! It turns out that the coordinates given then had put the reporter in the Southeast end of the facility which puts to rest the notion that this was not the Al Qaqaa Facility and discredits anybody's claim that these tapes could be false. I haven't heard such a claim, but that at leasts minimizes the likelihood of the Bush administration taking that avenue. I can see Bush now saying, "14.67 tons of HMX, 155.68 tons of RDX and 6.39 tons of PETN explosives were not lost. They were liberated from the tyrannical clutches of the International Atomic Energy Agency." [Insert applause and the unnecessarily long, "four more years'' chant here].

The video taken by KSTP of St Paul, Minnesota, on April 18, 2003, could reinforce suggestions that tons of explosives missing from a munitions installation in Iraq were looted after the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. The video was broadcast nationally on Thursday on the ABC network.

Shame on Mayor Giuliani for saying "No matter how you try to blame it on the president, the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there. Did they search carefully enough? Didn't they search carefully enough?"

It's obvious that if Giuliani had the audacity to make a statement like that, he had to have known that something was about to be uncovered--otherwise I'm fairly certain that nothing like that would have been said. How can the same people that say that we are undermining the troops and "denigrating" them by not believing this is the right war at the right time--how can these same people turn around and lay blame on the troops themselves for something that should really fall on the shoulders of someone WAY higher in command? There is no excuse for the incompetence of this President--before this story came out--they claimed it was ignorance. Both are correct.