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10/26/2004: "“One of the Great Blunders”"

I was a little bewildered yesterday when I read a NYT story about a missing stockpile of weapons in Iraq because like deja vu I thought I had already read that story some time ago. I had. This is a recycled story just in time for an election made to look like it was breaking news.

I was also bewildered yesterday when I heard John Kerry talking about these weapons and the incompetence of this administration as if Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and George Bush had personally been assigned to keep those stockpiles secure and had failed. That job had been “outsourced”, as Mr. Kerry would say, by the administration to the US Military. So it must be the US Military that John Kerry thinks is so incompetent and failed to do their job. Now those are fighting words, Mr. Kerry, and you don’t want to go there.

I have questioned Mr. Kerry’s judgment all along but this must be one of his greatest blunders. I am applying for the job of Commander in Chief and I am publicly insulting and denigrating those who would serve under me and who are sacrificing life and limb to keep our country safe. Is it any wonder we heard stories of fragging occurred in Vietnam? Is this a flip or a flop? So today, there were WMD and it's missing? I'm confused, I thought you said there weren't any WMD. Which is it?

The problem was not that the administration failed to order those stockpiles secured, or that the US military was incompetent and failed to get the job done. The problem in securing these weapons was that we waited too long to go to war because they were already gone when we got there. So Mr. Kerry it wasn’t the wrong war, the wrong place, but you may be correct that it was the wrong time since our greatest fear may have already come true. Just for the record Mr. Kerry, you may be right about the wrong time but unfortunately for you; you were 100% wrong with your accusation that we rushed to war. Unfortunately for all of us, that screwing around time with the corrupt UN that you insisted on gave that brutal dictator enough time to stash his WMD somewhere else or destroy them but we may never know which one it is.

So the moral of the story and headline of the NYT yesterday should have been:

CONTAINMENT FAILED!
Or
BUSH SHOULD HAVE RUSHED TO WAR!

But of course those headlines would contradict the wasted ink of the NYT headlines all along. I laugh every time I hear someone quote a story or statistic and cite the NYT as the source. The NYT lost any and all credibility long ago. If you believe a word that you read in that rag, you are an idiot. Please don't vote or reproduce. The attempts of manipulation by the media are a disgrace to anyone who considers journalism a profession. According to the Drudge Report this morning:

“In an election week rush:

**ABCNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 4 Times
**CBSNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 7 Times
**MSNBC Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 37 Times
**CNN Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 50 Times

But tonight, NBCNEWS reported: The 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were already missing back in April 10, 2003 -- when U.S. troops arrived at the installation south of Baghdad!

An NBCNEWS crew embedded with troops moved in to secure the Al-Qaqaa weapons facility on April 10, 2003, one day after the liberation of Iraq.

According to NBCNEWS, the HMX and RDX explosives were already missing when the American troops arrived.

"The U.S. Army was at the site one day after the liberation and the weapons were already gone," a top Republican blasted from Washington late Monday. ‘

You know, Americans love an underdog. It is absolutely amazing to me that the media, Hollywood intellectuals (I know, that’s an oxymoron), George Soros, 527’s, "Old Europe", the UN, the DNC, Kerry and Edwards have so blatantly jumped into bed together to oppose this President that they are making a sitting President the underdog in this race.

Keep it up schmucks and it’s result will be good for "Four more years." Four more years has such a nice ring to it.

PS-I believe Vicky Clarke is credited with embedding reporters with the troops. Brillant Vicky. The only way for the media to attack this is to say that when their reporters are there as news is being made, (when they see it with their own eyes, hear it with their own ears, and live it daily)-they report what we want them to report, not what they see, hear, smell and taste. While that may be true for a lot of the media, I don't think we'll be hearing that confession for quite some time. "Bless me father for I have sinned, ....." I thought I would just get them started.