10/27/2004 07:40:23 AM|||Toni|||Captain's Quarters

Ed has been writing on this from the beginning. This IS a manufactured circus by the NY Times. Yes, the Old Gray Lady with the stellar reputation of fraud, deceit and bias on anything remotely conservative.

First of all, the issue is whether they secured the site and the ingress/egress to it, since the argument from the Times and IAEA chief Mohammed ElBaradei has been that lax security on the part of Americans led to 380 tons of materiel being looted. Second of all, two contemporaneous reports show that the 3ID had already investigated the Al Qaqaa site and found nothing under IAEA seal. The CBS report -- the Times' reporting partner on this story -- makes clear that the 3ID knew that the site had been suspected of WMD production and/or storage; the Fox report confirms the same information and gives even greater detail. Both articles were published on April 4, 2003, six days before Col. Anderson showed up at Al Qaqaa.

As a further note, I had the O'Reilly show on (in the background as I was packing some boxes) and he was talking with Brit Hume and Juan Williams about the explosives issue O'Reilly referred to the 101st Airborne as the 101st Armored! No one caught it. Now I know they sound a bit alike errrr maybe start with the same first letter? But what this just reiterates is that the MSM has no clue about anything military. Do I know anything or purport to know anything about the military - nope. But before I go throwing divisional names around I'd be sure I had the name right especially on a news program.
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