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October 28, 2004

No really... They are positive that you're stupid!

George W. Bush and his campaign continue to demonstrate their open contempt for the American voter over the missing 380 TONS of explosives in Iraq... by lying to us all.

Bush spokesman Dan Senor said on CNN that "there's a very high probability that those weapons weren't even there before the war."

Thing is, this theory is in direct conflict with the statement last Monday to the Associated Press by a Pentagon spokesman who said, "US-led coalition troops had searched Al Qaqaa in the immediate aftermath of the March 2003 invasion and confirmed that the explosives, which had been under IAEA seal since 1991, were intact."

As if that weren't bad enough for Bush, now, video shot in Iraq by a Minneapolis news team provides further proof that the administration's theory is bogus. After the invasion - on April 18, 2003 - the Minneapolis ABC news crew was stationed just south of the Al Qaqaa facility.3 That day, they drove 2 to 3 miles north with the 101st Airborne Division. There, "members of the 101st Airborne Division showed the 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS news crew bunker after bunker of material labeled 'explosives.'"Some of the boxes were marked "Al Qaqaa." One soldier told the crew: "we can stick [detonation cords] in those and make some good bombs." - Misleader.org

Here's the video footage: Watch the video

*Update*

This story reminds me of the old Humpty Dumpty rhyme - "... and all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again."

President Bush has the Pentagon, the State Department and others trying to figure out what happened to the missing explosives. Now!

Um... Mr. President? Saddam has been out of power for one and a half years and you're just now getting around to attempting to figure out where 380 tons of extremely powerful explosives might be?

Posted by Kevin at October 28, 2004 12:56 PM