This mornings spin on the 380 tons of explosives issue is, "it wasn't there when our troops got there." So it was under monitored lock and key by the IAEA before the war. Then sometime right before the actual operation began the IAEA pulled out. And sometime between then and when our troops got there, the explosives were gone. So it's not the administrations fault. So who's fault is it? Whose fault is it that the weapons were contained, and now they aren't?
I thought this was supposed to be a "new era of accountability". Where is the accountability here? The president wants to take responsibility for that war when it's 'mission accomplished', but starts playing the blame game when the going gets rough. What a joke.
Posted by jherr at October 26, 2004 08:47 AMI remember seeing this news item when it first came out - a long time ago. When it came up again recently, I wondered if it had happened again. Actually, I thought again, "See, there were illegal weapons there! How did we let those get away, too?" But it turns out that it is the same story about the same missing weapons as last year, regurgitated for our benefit, a week before the election.
How did they disappear? This is what happens when you tell a country for 4 months that you're coming in. And then you broadcast that it's going to be "Shock and Awe". I didn't understand that, either. Did we think those people didn't have access to CNN?
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