Someone want to explain all this Al QaQaa stuff to me?

[derrald]

I dont understand the meaning of the story that's on the front page now - what does it mean? does it disprove some sort of republican spin?

I'm lost! We dont get cable in the dorms!

[MsUnderstood]

1. bush said kerry didn't know the facts

republicans claimed the weapons had been moved before we invaded.

the video shows a camera crew traveling with 101st and opening up the weapons vault but not securing.

Rudy G responded by saying it isn't the president's job, it is the soldiers job--it is their fault.

Clark responded by calling rudy a shmuck.

[geniph]

2. The Karl Rove version

of the story is that the explosives were looted, BEFORE the U.S. troops invaded Iraq, by Russians. Or it might have been the Easter Bunny. However, the troops who actually went through that area say the explosives were there when they went through. Unfortunately for the Rove version of the story, the troops had an embedded reporter with them, who videotaped the materials in situ.

Either way, it stinks to high heaven; either we have satellite photos of trucks removing tons of explosives from Iraq before the invasion, and DID NOTHING, or the troops are telling the truth, the material was there, and left unguarded for anyone who cared to go in and steal it to do so.

Either way, those materials are being used to kill our soldiers. Way to support the troops, eh?

[Momof1]

3. They also claimed Russians took them before the war, this

proves they are lying liars.

[Trajan]

4. The latest twist ...

Has video evidence from an ABC affiliate station in Minnesota, who went with the 101st Airborne into the Al Qaqaa site on April 18th, 2003, nine days after Baghdad fell .... The seals on the Weapons Depot doors were intact, sealing 380 tons of high explosives ...

Those present in the video opened the doors, and espyed that containers filled with HMX high explosives were IN the building ....

Therefore: Bush cannot claim that 'no one knows if the explosives weren't already gone' by the time we got there ....

The Pentagon didnt plan to protect them, and didnt : THAT is the issue ...

Now there is reason to suspect that THOSE explosives are being used against our own soldiers: due to the incompetence of our own Pentagon leaders :IE Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney et al ...

There: the nutshell ...

[goodhue]

5. See here for what KSTP reporter Dean Staley saw at Al QaQaa on April 18

http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S3740.html?cat=1

[Deja Q]

6. I think Al QaQaa is a joke, as QaQaa easily rhymes with Caca...

Now go look up 'caca' in that Spanish->English translator and wince.

[PissedOffPollyana]

7. Here's the Reader's Digest version...

Serious explosives went missing from a large weapons compound at Al Qaqaa. They are incredibly stable and easy to transport, making them ideal for terrorists & insurgents. The IAEA had them under seal, which was well known to the Bush admin.

On October 10th, the Iraqi leadership finally reported the explosives missing to the IAEA; the US has reportedly pressured them to keep the whole thing quiet.

Once the story broke, the Bush regime denied culpability, claiming the huge cache was already gone before US troops got there. Another back-up story involves Saddam working with the Russians to move them before the invasion (this ridiculous myth came from a Bush admin. underling and the Moonie Times and is only being trotted out by the more bombastic talking heads).

They used an NBC embed story to try to assert "proof" that the explosives weren't there but moved back to a "nobody knows" sort of lie when it was reported that no search was done.

There is an AP article from April 5 that confirms thousands of boxes of explosives were found at the complex by the troops arriving there the 3rd/4th.

But the real kicker is the KSTP film. It shows chains on bunker doors with intact IAEA seals. They move inside the bunkers to find masses of drums and boxes marked "explosives" and "Al Qaqaa".

The conclusion: Bush is now not only caught in negligence for not securing the explosives & site but will now have to face the music for all the lies told trying to cover it up, not to mention why they didn't report the missing sealed explosives to the IAEA.

Bush Cheney is in deep Al Qaqaa.