WHY WHY WHY is CNN STILL calling the 101st AB the "FIRST" troops

[LynnTheDem]

to arrive at Al QaQaa on April 10, 2003????!!!

ARRRRGH!!!

NO NO NO NO NO!!!

The FIRST troops to Al QaQaa were the 3rd Infantry Division, who arrived on April 3, 2003. AND THEY FOUND EXPLOSIVES. THEY had them TESTED.

This made the news in pretty much every media on this PLANET!!! It even made FAUX MOOS!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83252,00.html

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/RAN305A.html

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:4HlpKh0avh8J:www.straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/iraqwar/story/0,4395,181389,00.html+white+powder+found+is+explosives%3B+2003+Iraq&hl=en

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2917531.stm

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:Leed8IJHRMoJ:www.dailyherald.com/special/iraq/wwi_paststory.asp%3FintID%3D3771619+troops+find+white+powder,+explosives+Al+Qa+Qaa+Iraq+April+2003&hl=en

ARRRRGH!!!

I feel a wee bit better now. :)

[Jacobin]

1. Pssst.......

Over here.......CNN is run by people who want George Bush back in the WH.....pass it on.

[LynnTheDem]

2. *whisper* yeah but...

IT PISSES ME OFF!!!

oops

*whisper* it pisses me off!

:D

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Gotta keep this one kicked

[Andromeda]

4. Kick

:kick:

[BUSHOUT]

5. They're idiots. Did you see the ticker during Lou Dobbs?

At least once it said an NBC report indicated the site was likely empty of explosives when the 101st came through.

Josh Marshal at Talking Points Memo wants us to let him know of CNN transgressions in this area....the distortion of NBC report specifically.

Maybe he's going to write a book!

[LynnTheDem]

6. Well it COULD have been empty when the 101st came thru, BUT...

those explosives WERE THERE the previous week, April 3, 2003, when the FIRST batch of troops, Col. Peabody's 3rd ID, were there.

Would it have been possible to empty 380 tons, 40 trucks' worth, over 100 buildings, in 5 days during an invasion???

'Spose so...

But the explosives were in Al QaQaa on April 3, 2003. AFTER bush launched his invasion. BUSH is responsible for those explosives now being missing and likely killing our troops.

[BUSHOUT]

7. Why isn't that being reported anywhere anymore?

That was an "anonymous" pentagon official who said it, that right?

It would be nice to have that make it front and center in this story.

[LynnTheDem]

9. It IS being reported...just not by the Usual Idiots

Josh on Talking Points Memo has mentioned it constantly.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com

MediaMatters points it out.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1181700&mesg_id=1181700

The NYT and Nelson reports both mention it, too. :)

And no I don't mean the "Pentagon official". I mean Col. John Peabody, commander of the 3rd ID engineer brigade.

April 5, 2003, TONS of media reported on it; do a google search using key words: "white powder explosives Iraq April 2003 Col. Peabody Al Qa Qaa" or variations thereof and you'll find lots & lots of media reports about the "suspicious thousands of boxes of white powder found by 3rd ID April 3-4, 2003, that turned out to be explosives". :)

[ruggerson]

8. Lynn: Write Eason Jordan directly - head of news division

Give him all your info -

[e-mail]

he actually reads his email and occasionally answers his phone.

[LynnTheDem]

11. Did that. Got ignored.

SOP towards me, lol!

[MattNC]

10. because they suck at journalism n/t

[sandnsea]

12. oil fields... weapons repository...

hmmm... which should we protect...

OIL FIELDS!!!

I just shot off an email saying I would like these people to get an answer from Bush on JUST ONE question, in 4 long years, just one; did the CiC ask the Generals what the plan was to secure the KNOWN IAEA weapons locations. Could they just make him be responsible for one goddamned thing!!!

I hear you on the misreporting too, it's just mind blowing. They just can't be that stupid.

[Hot Water]

13. Piss off the Pentagon,

the CIA, and....well, they just don't like it.

If you think you will spin this one away, into love for your war, I'll get a trans gender operation and suck your pencil.