Missing Iraqi explosives hound US election campaign trail

[leftchick]

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/113792/1/.html


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"George Bush has not offered a single word of explanation ... he failed to secure Iraq and keep it from becoming what it is today -- a haven for terrorists," Kerry later said in a speech in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

While Bush avoided the controversy over the disappearance of 350 tonnes of high explosives in Iraq, his Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld downplayed the report by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

"It is not at all clear that those explosives were even at the weapons facility when our troops arrived in the area of Baghdad. John Kerry doesn't mention that," Cheney said at a rally in Pensacola, Florida.

"Do you remember when the museum - everyone said the museum was looted?" Rumsfeld said in an interview with a Cincinnati, Ohio, radio station, comparing the missing explosives to reports about massive looting at Iraq's national museum after the start of the war, which later proved to be exaggerated.

[maddezmom]

1. what is clear, is that the misadministration had no plan

to secure the weapons caches...only the oil ministry. Even the Iraqi's aren't buying this crap from the misadministration.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x935889
Iraq says 'impossible' explosives taken before regime fall

~~It is impossible that these materials could have been taken from this site before the regime's fall," said Mohammed al-Sharaa, who heads the science ministry's site monitoring department and previously worked with UN weapons inspectors under Saddam.


"The officials that were inside this facility (Al-Qaqaa) beforehand confirm that not even a shred of paper left it before the fall and I spoke to them about it and they even issued certified statements to this effect which the US-led coalition was aware of.~~~