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Americans lose weapons in Iraq

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hellmut
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this is from the NY times

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 24 - The Iraqi interim government has warned the United States and international nuclear inspectors that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives - used to demolish buildings, make missile warheads and detonate nuclear weapons - are missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations.

The huge facility, called Al Qaqaa, was supposed to be under American military control but is now a no man's land, still picked over by looters as recently as Sunday.

Looks like we fucked up in Iraq again, wait a second... an NBC News report later noted the explosives were already gone before troops arrived at the Al-Qaqaa installation. Another false report by the NY times, and surprise, CBS was going to run this story until the times broke it first. From 'only the news thats fit to print' to 'only the news that helps Kerry'

How can the times skew the facts so horribly. The article was clearly written as if the weapons went missing under US troops, which is simply not true.
Oct 26 2004 5:35PM
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Ice-Is-Scary
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yeah I don't know what information to trust these days


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Oct 26 2004 5:37PM
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J.D.
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So... the NBC guy got there before the troops did, and reported that there were no weapons? Or was he with the troops? If EITHER of those is the case, how could NYT possibly have broken this story before them? Man, journalism in Iraq is screwed up right now... might help if the reporters could leave their hotels without risking immediate capture and execution, I guess. I'd like to see a bit of clarification on this, though.

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Oct 26 2004 5:38PM
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hellmut
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the weapons went missing in early 2003, before the US troops were there. in other words this is an old story and NY times wrote it as if it was the US troops' fault the weapons went missing.
Oct 26 2004 5:48PM
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Graves
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The reporter was apparently embeded with the soldiers when they arrived in al-QaQa.

I heard a report that the story was broken, but given little attention at the time. I also heard another story that it never was broken.

I think Neil Cavuto summed up the situation best:

Every time people tell me there's no media bias, I use stories such as mine on Jimmy Carter to illustrate just the opposite. The official media loves Carter and some have dumped on me for not sharing that love. That's fine. But here's what isn't: Pretending you're serving your readers or viewers by saying you're giving both sides.

Take this issue of tons of explosives now missing in Iraq.

Why no reporting on this NBC News item these weapons might have disappeared 'before' American troops even arrived on the scene? And why suddenly this new-found concern for explosives at all — one of our primary reasons for going into Iraq — when all the established media argued there were no such explosives 'in' Iraq?

Let me ask you something: Is it remotely possible, just a teeny-tiny bit possible, that some of the '350 tons' of these high explosives were even higher than that? I don't know, maybe the mass destruction kind? Who knows? But this much I do know: Even if we were to find scores of weapons of mass destruction at this point, I doubt it'd make so much as a point of mention in newspapers or newscasts.

Bias is alive and well.

It's amazing. FOX News gets routinely dumped on for covering news one way. Yet there's not a word about others who continue to lock lemming-step to 'their' way.


They insist Carter's a saint, or weapons aren't there. Never mind that Carter isn't a saint and now talk that at least at one time there were plenty of weapons there.

If it doesn't fit 'their' picture, we don't get the picture. But I do get the picture and let me tell you something: It ain't pretty.



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Oct 26 2004 5:49PM
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well you better go burn down their building. this just cant be.
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