Iraq's grim spiral: Bush refuses to acknowledge dire situation

[DaveSZ]

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2004/10/28/ed.edit.iraq.phn.1028.html


October 28, 2004

Iraq's grim spiral: Bush refuses to acknowledge dire situation

A Register-Guard Editorial


Some days it's hard to imagine how the news from Iraq can get any worse, although it has a way of doing just that with unsettling regularity.

On Monday, The New York Times reported that U.S. forces failed to secure 380 tons of high explosives that may have been looted by insurgents. The types of explosives are so potent they can be used to detonate nuclear weapons and have been linked to large-scale terrorist attacks.

Two days earlier came news of the massacre of 49 unarmed Iraqi soldiers who had just finished basic training. The killings gave credence to an Iraqi security official's estimation that insurgents have infiltrated up to 5 percent of the country's security forces, and prompted Prime Minister Ayad Allawi to blame the U.S.-led coalition for "great negligence" in failing to protect the recruits. Meanwhile, a militant group called Army of Ansar el-Sunna posted photos on a Web site showing 11 captured Iraqi guardsmen.

All of this undermines President Bush's blithe insistence that Iraqi soldiers and police officers are gaining strength and will soon be able to assume security duties from U.S. forces. With large sections of the country under control of insurgents, it's hard to imagine how the Iraqi government and coalition forces can provide the stability and security essential for successful elections that the United States has pledged will take place by the end of January - just three months away.

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[Emboldened Chimp]

1. Link, please...

[Demit]

2. Yes, George Bush, blithe spirit. link?

[murphymom]

3. I think this is the link

from today's Register Guard

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2004/10/28/ed.edit.iraq.phn.1028.html

[DaveSZ]

4. Sorry

link fixed

:)

[rodeodance]

5. Best Headline_ Video Shows Explosives Went Missing After War

Headlines, for me are important. I think this is the clearest headline I have seen about the explosives--and, as a follow-up from the story above on the GRIM consequences of this war!!

Without mentioning Kerry by name, Rumsfeld told a radio interviewer, "People who use hair-trigger judgment to come to conclusions about things that are fast-moving frequently make mistakes that are awkward and embarrassing."


"Rumsfeld also said it was "very likely that, just as the United States would do, that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) moved munitions when he knew the war was coming" in order to protect the material from attack.


ABC said the video it broadcast was shot by an affiliate TV station embedded with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division when the troops passed through the storage facility on April 18, 2003, nine days after the fall of Baghdad.


ABC said experts who have studied the images say the barrels seen in the video contain the high explosive HMX, and U.N. markings on the sealed containers were clear"

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=6&u=/nm/20041029/ts_nm/iraq_explosives_abc_dc
Report: Video Shows Explosives Went Missing After War


Thu Oct 28, 8:20 PM ET



WASHINGTON (Reuters)

[rodeodance]

6. Best Headline_ Video Shows Explosives Went Missing After War

Headlines, for me are important. I think this is the clearest headline I have seen about the explosives--and, as a follow-up from the story above on the GRIM consequences of this war!!

Without mentioning Kerry by name, Rumsfeld told a radio interviewer, "People who use hair-trigger judgment to come to conclusions about things that are fast-moving frequently make mistakes that are awkward and embarrassing."


"Rumsfeld also said it was "very likely that, just as the United States would do, that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) moved munitions when he knew the war was coming" in order to protect the material from attack.


ABC said the video it broadcast was shot by an affiliate TV station embedded with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division when the troops passed through the storage facility on April 18, 2003, nine days after the fall of Baghdad.


ABC said experts who have studied the images say the barrels seen in the video contain the high explosive HMX, and U.N. markings on the sealed containers were clear"

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=6&u=/nm/20041029/ts_nm/iraq_explosives_abc_dc
Report: Video Shows Explosives Went Missing After War


Thu Oct 28, 8:20 PM ET



WASHINGTON (Reuters)

[rodeodance]

7. Best Headline_ Video Shows Explosives Went Missing After War

Headlines, for me are important. I think this is the clearest headline I have seen about the explosives--and, as a follow-up from the story above on the GRIM consequences of this war!!

Without mentioning Kerry by name, Rumsfeld told a radio interviewer, "People who use hair-trigger judgment to come to conclusions about things that are fast-moving frequently make mistakes that are awkward and embarrassing."


"Rumsfeld also said it was "very likely that, just as the United States would do, that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) moved munitions when he knew the war was coming" in order to protect the material from attack.


ABC said the video it broadcast was shot by an affiliate TV station embedded with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division when the troops passed through the storage facility on April 18, 2003, nine days after the fall of Baghdad.


ABC said experts who have studied the images say the barrels seen in the video contain the high explosive HMX, and U.N. markings on the sealed containers were clear"

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=6&u=/nm/20041029/ts_nm/iraq_explosives_abc_dc
Report: Video Shows Explosives Went Missing After War


Thu Oct 28, 8:20 PM ET



WASHINGTON (Reuters)

[rodeodance]

8. Best Headline_ Video Shows Explosives Went Missing After War

Headlines, for me are important. I think this is the clearest headline I have seen about the explosives--and, as a follow-up from the story above on the GRIM consequences of this war!!

Without mentioning Kerry by name, Rumsfeld told a radio interviewer, "People who use hair-trigger judgment to come to conclusions about things that are fast-moving frequently make mistakes that are awkward and embarrassing."


"Rumsfeld also said it was "very likely that, just as the United States would do, that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) moved munitions when he knew the war was coming" in order to protect the material from attack.


ABC said the video it broadcast was shot by an affiliate TV station embedded with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division when the troops passed through the storage facility on April 18, 2003, nine days after the fall of Baghdad.


ABC said experts who have studied the images say the barrels seen in the video contain the high explosive HMX, and U.N. markings on the sealed containers were clear"

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=6&u=/nm/20041029/ts_nm/iraq_explosives_abc_dc
Report: Video Shows Explosives Went Missing After War


Thu Oct 28, 8:20 PM ET



WASHINGTON (Reuters)

[rodeodance]

9. Best Headline_ Video Shows Explosives Went Missing After War

Headlines, for me are important. I think this is the clearest headline I have seen about the explosives--and, as a follow-up from the story above on the GRIM consequences of this war!!

Without mentioning Kerry by name, Rumsfeld told a radio interviewer, "People who use hair-trigger judgment to come to conclusions about things that are fast-moving frequently make mistakes that are awkward and embarrassing."


"Rumsfeld also said it was "very likely that, just as the United States would do, that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) moved munitions when he knew the war was coming" in order to protect the material from attack.


ABC said the video it broadcast was shot by an affiliate TV station embedded with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division when the troops passed through the storage facility on April 18, 2003, nine days after the fall of Baghdad.


ABC said experts who have studied the images say the barrels seen in the video contain the high explosive HMX, and U.N. markings on the sealed containers were clear"

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=6&u=/nm/20041029/ts_nm/iraq_explosives_abc_dc
Report: Video Shows Explosives Went Missing After War


Thu Oct 28, 8:20 PM ET



WASHINGTON (Reuters)

[rodeodance]

10. Best Headline_ Video Shows Explosives Went Missing After War

Headlines, for me are important. I think this is the clearest headline I have seen about the explosives--and, as a follow-up from the story above on the GRIM consequences of this war!!

Without mentioning Kerry by name, Rumsfeld told a radio interviewer, "People who use hair-trigger judgment to come to conclusions about things that are fast-moving frequently make mistakes that are awkward and embarrassing."


"Rumsfeld also said it was "very likely that, just as the United States would do, that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) moved munitions when he knew the war was coming" in order to protect the material from attack.


ABC said the video it broadcast was shot by an affiliate TV station embedded with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division when the troops passed through the storage facility on April 18, 2003, nine days after the fall of Baghdad.


ABC said experts who have studied the images say the barrels seen in the video contain the high explosive HMX, and U.N. markings on the sealed containers were clear"

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=6&u=/nm/20041029/ts_nm/iraq_explosives_abc_dc
Report: Video Shows Explosives Went Missing After War


Thu Oct 28, 8:20 PM ET



WASHINGTON (Reuters)

[rodeodance]

11. Best Headline_ Video Shows Explosives Went Missing After War

Headlines, for me are important. I think this is the clearest headline I have seen about the explosives--and, as a follow-up from the story above on the GRIM consequences of this war!!

Without mentioning Kerry by name, Rumsfeld told a radio interviewer, "People who use hair-trigger judgment to come to conclusions about things that are fast-moving frequently make mistakes that are awkward and embarrassing."


"Rumsfeld also said it was "very likely that, just as the United States would do, that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) moved munitions when he knew the war was coming" in order to protect the material from attack.


ABC said the video it broadcast was shot by an affiliate TV station embedded with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division when the troops passed through the storage facility on April 18, 2003, nine days after the fall of Baghdad.


ABC said experts who have studied the images say the barrels seen in the video contain the high explosive HMX, and U.N. markings on the sealed containers were clear"

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=6&u=/nm/20041029/ts_nm/iraq_explosives_abc_dc
Report: Video Shows Explosives Went Missing After War


Thu Oct 28, 8:20 PM ET



WASHINGTON (Reuters)

[rodeodance]

12. Best Headline_ Video Shows Explosives Went Missing After War

Headlines, for me are important. I think this is the clearest headline I have seen about the explosives--and, as a follow-up from the story above on the GRIM consequences of this war!!

Without mentioning Kerry by name, Rumsfeld told a radio interviewer, "People who use hair-trigger judgment to come to conclusions about things that are fast-moving frequently make mistakes that are awkward and embarrassing."


"Rumsfeld also said it was "very likely that, just as the United States would do, that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) moved munitions when he knew the war was coming" in order to protect the material from attack.


ABC said the video it broadcast was shot by an affiliate TV station embedded with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division when the troops passed through the storage facility on April 18, 2003, nine days after the fall of Baghdad.


ABC said experts who have studied the images say the barrels seen in the video contain the high explosive HMX, and U.N. markings on the sealed containers were clear"

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=6&u=/nm/20041029/ts_nm/iraq_explosives_abc_dc
Report: Video Shows Explosives Went Missing After War


Thu Oct 28, 8:20 PM ET



WASHINGTON (Reuters)