The End Is Unclear
Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2004 - 9:25 AM

Indulge me. Please. I know I have a lot of liberal readers, and I'm not trying to attack you here, I'm just curious -- do you know that the 380 tons of explosives missing from Iraq was missing by the time the US Army got to that facility? I mean, these didn't go missing last week. This isn't breaking news, but the New York Times and CBS are reporting it as if it is. The IAEA, the international group that monitors atomic devices, last definitely knew that the 377 tons of explosives were there in February of 2003. They performed spot checks of some of the places where they knew there were explosives on March 8, 2003, though no one seems to be able to find a record of which places they spot checked (wtf? I find that hard to believe.) The war started March 19, 2003. April 9, 2003 is when US troops finally made it to the bunker and did a search of the facility, finding nothing labeled by the IAEA. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, they did a cursory search of the bunker and didn't search every room in the facility that day. However, from that point forward there was a convoy of US troops marching toward Baghdad. Finally on May 27, 2003 US weapons inspectors did a full search of the facility noting a number of rockets and other weapons in the bunker, but no sign of any IAEA labeled explosives were found. It would have been extremely lucky for insurgents to carry away 38 truck loads of explosives undetected by this US supply and communications line while there were also unmanned aircraft patrolling the area.

However, I don't see any of this information on the front page of the New York Times like they put the "breaking story". I can't find it on CBS News. So I have to wonder how many of you know that this was blatant deception on the part of a liberal news outlet. I'm curious -- did you know the whole story, or today, about two days after the story broke, did you still think that Bush's Army was responsible for not securing these explosives? The truth is, no one is sure what happened to the explosives. UN weapons inspectors recommended in 1995 that they be destroyed, but instead the IAEA decided Iraq could keep them as long as they were 30 miles south of the Iraqi capital. Thank, IAEA! And thank you New York Times and CBS News for reporting the half truth!

Please let me know if you knew the whole story before reading this entry. Thanks for answering!

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