The BIG Lie (CBS at it again)
From Rick Roberts... Did you know that 380 tons of explosives has 'just' gone missing in Iraq? CBS news is prepared to run an exclusive report about how the Bush administration let this cache of weapons slip through it fingers and somehow allowed it all to disappear. The report, in the hands of CBS right now, is scheduled to be broadcast on 60 Minutes this Sunday night, a day and a half before the elections.
There's a couple of problems here;
First, if it's such an important story, why is CBS waiting to report it? Why don't they report it now? I'll tell you why; To have maximum impact before the election, with no time for the administration to respond.
Second, this is old news! Besides being old, it's totally incorrect!
The cache of weapons was inspected and marked with 'new' UN seals in January of 2003 -- 3 months before our troops liberated Iraq. Embedded reporters for NBC News were with our troops when we first took over the Al-Qaqaa facility and secured it.
UN inspectors state that they had "replaced" their seals on the facility January 10, 2003. This means they inspected it sometime BEFORE January of 03. Then when they went back at that time, the first seals were gone and new seals had to be used to "replace" the old ones.
By the time our troops got there in April, THREE MONTHS LATER, the cache was gone. It's now 18 months after that.
This isn't news, and the way CBS News and the Kerry campaign are treating it is wholly a lie.
Read 60 MINS PLANNED BUSH MISSING EXPLOSIVES STORY FOR ELECTION EVE for more information.
There's a couple of problems here;
First, if it's such an important story, why is CBS waiting to report it? Why don't they report it now? I'll tell you why; To have maximum impact before the election, with no time for the administration to respond.
Second, this is old news! Besides being old, it's totally incorrect!
The cache of weapons was inspected and marked with 'new' UN seals in January of 2003 -- 3 months before our troops liberated Iraq. Embedded reporters for NBC News were with our troops when we first took over the Al-Qaqaa facility and secured it.
UN inspectors state that they had "replaced" their seals on the facility January 10, 2003. This means they inspected it sometime BEFORE January of 03. Then when they went back at that time, the first seals were gone and new seals had to be used to "replace" the old ones.
By the time our troops got there in April, THREE MONTHS LATER, the cache was gone. It's now 18 months after that.
This isn't news, and the way CBS News and the Kerry campaign are treating it is wholly a lie.
Read 60 MINS PLANNED BUSH MISSING EXPLOSIVES STORY FOR ELECTION EVE for more information.
