Hilarious! Here's the transcript of Scotty McClellan's press gaggle today.

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Wed Oct-27-04 12:47 PM
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Hilarious! Here's the transcript of Scotty McClellan's press gaggle today.

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Q Will the President mention missing weapons, missing explosives in Iraq in any of his speeches?

MR. McCLELLAN: I have found one aspect of this debate interesting. Senator Kerry's own advisors, Senator Kerry's own senior advisors have now been forced to admit that they don't know the facts. Richard Holbrooke said, I don't know the truth. And Jamie Rubin made similar comments to that effect. I think it is part of the pattern by Senator Kerry, even when he does not know the facts, to say anything that will give him a political advantage.

You know, the fact is there is an investigation that is ongoing to get to the bottom of this. Our military does not know what happened to those munitions, and neither does Senator Kerry. Yet, he is willing to -- well, Senator Kerry is someone who does not want to let the facts or the truth stand in the way of his campaign. He fails to talk about the fact that more than 400,000 tons of munitions have been seized or destroyed by coalition forces; more than 10,000 caches have been cleared. And let's remember the facts. This was a dangerous regime that had munitions literally spread throughout the country. Senator Kerry, with less than a week to go before the campaign, now suddenly believes that Iraq was a danger.

I expect the President may talk about what Senator Kerry is willing to do for his own political advantage, and that is ignore --

Q But he won't address the missing explosive issues, directly?

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, we talked about that. There's an investigation that's ongoing. No, that's why I'm saying is that I expect you will hear him talk some about what I just referred to.

Q The President will not specifically address the issue of these missing explosives?

MR. McCLELLAN: I expect -- this is the debate that -- or the discussion that has been going on. And I expect that the President will talk about the fact that Senator Kerry is willing to say anything for his own political advantage, even when he doesn't know the facts.

Q But will he actually address the 380 --

MR. McCLELLAN: I expect he will talk about the fact that more 400,000 munitions have been seized or otherwise destroyed. And I expect -- you heard what I just had to say, I expect he'll touch on some of that.
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/10/20041027-3.html
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Their main talking point today is that Kerry nor anyone else knows the facts yet about these explosives, so Kerry shouldn't be criticizing bush. But that's the whole point, Scotty! A year and a half after the IAEA persistently warned the bush admin about these explosives, nobody in the bush admin knows where they are, when they were taken, and supposedly didn't even know they were gone until twelve days ago. The Fort Knox of high explosives is thirty miles from Baghdad, and, despite repeated warnings, we're just looking into it now?

See these two press reports that talk about the importance of this weapons site, and David Kay's reaction to our handling of it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=934107&mesg_id=934107

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=935043&mesg_id=935043