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| 'EXPLOSIVE' CHARGES AS W. HITS BACK |
| 2004-10-29 |
| President Bush called John Kerry "the wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time" yesterday as he and GOP backers launched a blistering counteroffensive in the battle over missing explosives in Iraq. With the war continuing as the main flash point in the campaign's bitter final days, the Bush and Kerry teams traded ferocious charges over explosives that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa installation. Bush, at a campaign appearance in Michigan, charged Kerry has undertaken a "campaign of contradictions." "The senator's willingness to trade principle for political convenience makes it clear John Kerry is the wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time," Bush said in a play on one of Kerry's oft-used attack lines that the Iraq war was "the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time." Top Bush aides also struck back hard, saying the deadly material was likely removed by Saddam Hussein before U.S. troops ever got anywhere near Baghdad. Vice President Dick Cheney said Kerry is "just dead wrong" that U.S. troops failed to protect the gigantic arms depot. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said, "The best possibility is that the explosives were gone before the troops got there; at least it's an equal possibility." |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #18 the Baath party was grown by the US itself. |
| Posted by: Grumpy Uncle Sam 2004-10-29 4:03:05 AM |
| #17 Want to see some serious gagging? Try to praise the dypso-Holy Roller, White House transient. I accept your surrenders. |
| Posted by: 43366334 2004-10-29 8:36:27 PM |
| #16 Mystery over: US Forces hauled away over 250 tons of the stuff. And the other 100+ was hauled away prior to the war. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-10-29 3:35:14 PM |
| #15 Friggin' ridiculous CNN headline: "Photo, Video Add to Mystery of Missing Explosives" The only mystery is why these idiots are still referred to as journalists. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2004-10-29 11:52:52 AM |
| #14 News conference at Noon EST, according to Fox. Seems as though the 3rdID carted this stuff away. We'll see - and who cares? Just BS political poop, anyway. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-10-29 11:40:33 AM |
| #13 Mike, if only that we're possible, then they'd actually have an excuse for drooling. I believe the Almighty puts so many of these assholes on the planet at the same time in order to test the rest of us. We need to stay strong my brother. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-10-29 11:35:30 AM |
| #12 Jarhead, how about a STFU/SSRI "cocktail?" Shut the moonbat down and give them a sporting chance at a normal life, all in one dose. Hell, there could be a market for this! |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-10-29 11:26:35 AM |
| #11 Your so right 433whatever, us Bush Troopies just stood by and idley watched a bunch of ragheads run off w/tons of munitions....fucking idiot. 43366334 - Vote Kerry, thousands of Islamo-Fascists are depending on you. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-10-29 11:21:47 AM |
| #10 Bush is, of course responsible for everything in the world. He da man. That 7-11 robbery last week across town? Yep, Bush. The hang-nail that kept snagging on the sheet and waking you up - Bush, again. The fact that trolls have an IQ somewhere between their hat or shoe size, and the length of their tiny tiny weewee? You got it, Bush. It must be awesome to be revered as God by the trolls of life. If they just weren't so incontinent. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-10-29 11:20:31 AM |
| #9 43366334: During the liberation, Bush troops were repeatedly caught on tape, standing by while arms were being looted by current terrorist elements. Hey, f**khead, they are American troops, not Bush troops. In your world do the men and women of the military belong to the president instead of the nation? Do you think that the would become "Kerry troops" if the election goes badly? Not a chance in Hell. |
| Posted by: RWV 2004-10-29 11:05:14 AM |
| #8 Mike, I think what they really need is a nice cup of STFU. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-10-29 11:04:24 AM |
| #7 Dear 43366334 & Grumpy: I know something that can help. It's a kind of medication called a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, and it could change your life. Ask your doctor if an SSRI is right for you. |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-10-29 8:40:14 AM |
| #6 Hey, if you trolls are voting based on ideas like the ones you posted here, you neeed to do some serious self-questioning about whether you have the mental capacity to be participating in this election. |
| Posted by: V is for Victory 2004-10-29 8:33:29 AM |
| #5 Idiot trolls aside, this is a real tempest in a teapot over what amounts to nothing more than a last-minute Russian cover-up and perhaps repo for non-payment. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-10-29 8:03:58 AM |
| #4 The Ba'ath party was/is an indigenous secular fascist movement deliberately modelled by Saddam Hussein on his two heros: Hitler and Stalin. At the time that the movement was taking shape, the Middle East was the territory of the Colonial Powers, that is Great Britain and France. The U.S. was at that time in its between-the-wars isolationist phase. As for the sacking of the Ba'athists post-invasion. Iraqi society needed to be de-Ba'athisized, just as post-invasion Germany needed to be de-Nazified, in order to begin to rebuild anew. As soon as the civilian authority of Bremer was put into place, they began to separate out and rehabilitate those who had joined the Party merely for career purposes, and allowed them to return to their jobs. As for the looting, that happens during all wars; the Coalition soldiars were in the middle of invading while the worst of the looting was going on, and had more important concerns than sitting around guarding things. The current terrorist elements being anyway comprised of Saddam's Republican Guards and his Fedayin on the one hand, and foreign jihadis looking for glory and virgins on the other. Both of you, please better inform yourselves before coming here to prove yourselves fools.... or tools. Thank you. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-10-29 6:15:49 AM |
| #3 Ye gods! Lots of trolls on the third shift tonight. |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-10-29 6:09:14 AM |
| #2 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted] |
| Posted by: Grumpy Uncle Sam TROLL 2004-10-29 4:03:05 AM |
| #1 Bush's Coalition Provisional Authority banned "Baathism" as its first order of business. That caused the sacking of competent secular professionals who were only Baathists, for employment purposes. Once Bush suppressed Secularism, he created a power vacuum that the Islamofascists filled. Bush allowed al-Sadr's "Mahdi Army" to create an occupation-free-zone in North Baghdad. During the liberation, Bush troops were repeatedly caught on tape, standing by while arms were being looted by current terrorist elements. Among all the deserving attacks on Kerry at Rantburg, praise of Bush is non-existent. Its Texas Holdem; put your doubts on the table. Then fold. |
| Posted by: 43366334 2004-10-29 4:00:19 AM |