QaQaa Explodes On CBS and New York Times
Dean
You can read the latest on John Kerry's reckless charges of incompetence by the U.S. military, and how the New York Times and CBS appear to have colluded in this sickening display of naked partisanship, right here on Powerline and on Captain's Quarters. I suggest you also check out the top of Powerline and the top of Captain's Quarters periodically throughout the next few days to get the latest updates on this embarassment for the news media. (I'd say it's also an embarassment for Senator Kerry, but he's beyond embarassment at this point.)
* Update * The Washington Times this morning has photos showing flatbed trucks all over the site just before the invasion. I just gets worse and worse, doesn't it? Do either CBS or the New York Times have any idea how much their credibility has tanked? And do the Kerry people have any shame at all? I mean, have they no shame whatsoever?
(Cartoon by the lovely E-Claire.)
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It's been quite a while that i've refused to use the NYT for anything but backing spray-paint projects.
With the explosives story, however, that Time thesis seems to be in play. On the right, everyone is touting the pictures of those trucks. On the left, everyone is crowing about the embedded journalists video tape. And both sides have their built-in rebuttals as well:
Right: The NYT invented the story and another media outlet is backing them up with this tape.
Left: The Pentagon produced a photograph? Boy, that's credible.
Either way, Tuesday gonna get here, and somebody is going to have to clean this shit up. I'm just glad it ain't me.
Major Pearson's appearance at a press conference, along with US Defense Department spokesman Larry DiRita, accomplished a great deal to blow away the smoke and mirrors in regard to the Al-Qaqaa munitions cache that Kerry now claims is being used against us by terrorists.
As the matter of fact, USDOD now thinks that of the munitions held by the saddamites before we drove their boss from the presidential palace to the spider hole, only about 1/1000 is not accounted for, considering that 400,000 tons of recovered Iraqi munitions have either been destroyed or are slated to be destroyed. And it now obvious that some hundreds of tons of munitions were removed from the site shortly before the US forces even got into the country, according to the satellite photos of Al-Qaqaa that have been released.
So the NYT/CBS/Kerry-Cheney October Surprise is turning out be little more than a trick or treat that feeds us nothing but the same cheap candy they dish out every second day or so.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Major Pearson just said he had destroyed 200 tons of ordinance, not 200 tons of HMX or PETN, in spite of efforts by the Fox News reporter to get him to say more.
You should just quit while you are behind.
Either way it's a tempest in a teapot.
Yours,
Wince
Come on. I'm listening.
And why should we be that upset that it amounts to well under 1% of the total amount of this stuff that's been rounded up and destroyed by our forces?
This is a huge embarassment for the Kerry people, and the fact that they're trying so hard to use it tells me that they're getting very desperate in the final hours of the campaign.