All of the BIG 3 Networks Are Still Covering the Missing Explosives

[Roland99]

NBC covering it now.

[cubsfan forever]

1. Well, that was a short lived

October surprise, eh?

Professor 2

[helpisontheway]

2. YES..thank goodness! Hope they keep it up!

[madmax]

3. It's a very big story.

Our troops are getting killed every day. I should think Americans and the families of those serving want to know how the hell this happened. :shrug:

Remember Gep's meme: 'Miserable Failure'

[grace0418]

4. That's the real issue.

[WLKjr]

5. Good, Keep it up and they might just get a hint of what is going on

and has been going on for a long time.......;....


something bad for Bush, whoopss out pops OBL or a terra threat.

Talk about how convienent it is and suspicious the timing of this and anything else that happens this weekend.

[gcomeau]

6. Are they tying it to Osama?

I've been saying this all day, we NEED to tie these two issues together. Nobody in the press appears to have made the connection yet.

We've got TONS of missing explosives that the administration failed to properly secure AND we have confirmation that the terrorist the administration failed to properly pursue is still on the loose and in good health.

And if the two should meet, it's a BIG problem. Courtesy of the Bush administration.

-Grant

[pelagius]

11. If you posit a possible link between Osama and...

...the missing explosives, you also lend backhanded credence to the idea that Saddam and Osama might have been linked.

I think its best to stay away from this one entirely with such a short time to the election.

[gcomeau]

14. Bull...

You point out in absolutely clear terms that the weapons which were secured by the IAEA and which he never would have gotten his hands on were left unguarded BECAUSE of the war and the incompetent way the Bush administration went into it.

And NOW they could be anywhere. Including under Osama's control.

-Grant

[pelagius]

17. Say "they could be anywhere" and let people make whatever...

...connection they want. It's too late to spin the counterspin if we need to.

[Roland99]

21. No, completely different stories...no linking attempted.

[DuaneBidoux]

7. And just think: Without the Iraq war they might have stayed right

there...but now they're probably in the hands of a beaming and perky OBL.

[havocmom]

8. That is the best news of the day! Rove must be gulping antacids

and looking for an airplane tire to lay in front of. :nopity:

If Osama can't knock the story they wanna kill off page one, the Christmas goose may be cooked a tad early.

Hey Rumsfeld: Where's the explosives?

[aquart]

12. Al qaeda has the explosives!

And to quote a DUer, they're giving 'em back one carbomb at a time.

[LowerManhattanite]

15. "That is the best news of the day! Rove must be gulping antacids"...

...more like choking on chunks of mainstream media ass he's chewed off tonight for daring to go back to the explosives story...which should be mentioned every time we hear about an IED blwoing up one of our kids in Iraq.

Whatsa matter Karl? No illegitimate Black Kerry babies to unearth? Des-pe-RATE!

[Kadie]

9. That's good. We have missing explosives and a

someone that is a known threat making news. Connect the stories. It isn't good for bushie.

[aquart]

13. Especially if something explodes.

[pelagius]

19. I hate Bush, man, but I really don't want that to happen. n/t

[David__77]

10. I knew it!

The media are not in the mood for any funny business. They are, largely, staying on task in covering many different issues. The days of the wailing "red alert! red alert!" have, in the main, passed.

[killbotfactory]

16. Bush will leave a long list of failures as president

[Kipepeo]

I wish more DU threads would still be covering the explosives

n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. The explosives are still the big story.

Not Osama. He's been out there all along; Al Qaeda is still a threat; the fact that he just sent in a tape dopesn't change anything, except that it reminds us of the fact that Bush never caught him. The missing explosives are more important now because we know they are missing only because of Bush's poor planning.

[mountainvue]

20. As they should be.

This whole Bin Laden tape timing is a little too orchestrated for my taste.

[Roland99]

22. Would be interesting to know how it got to Al Jazeera

[mountainvue]

26. Well, someone knows

where Bin Laden is but it sure the hell isn't George Bush.

[senseandsensibility]

23. Let's e-mail them and say thanks

for continuing to cover this story. I'm sure they're hearing the opposite from the freepers.

[NightOwwl]

24. and CNN (Anderson Cooper) is showing Bruce Springsteen.

I think the media is getting tired of being played. They are probably as sick of this shit as we are.

[Javaman]

25. Just like the asinine terror alerts...

these OBL tapes just don't grab us by the nuts and swing us around the room like the used to.

[Gavinicus]

27. The media need to cover the story for what it really means.

They have been so quick to discuss the implications of this story on the election, but have ignored the fact that our troops, Iraqi national guardsmen, and innocents (mostly women and children according to recent reports) are being ripped to pieces by these explosives.

Every time I hear a frigging reporter say that Kerry has "seized" this issue and is "milking" it I want to drive my car into the nearest W-stickered, SOB-operated SUV I can find. The reporters are so damn cynical and jaded they fail to see the story for what it really is--a massive fuck up that is killing human beings and further degrading US influence and authority around the world.

Sheesh.