Go ahead, say it out loud: “Al Qaqaa.” That’s right, now that you’ve said it out loud, you can say it again about the NYT story trumpeting the horror! the horror! of 380 tons of “missing” explosives they wanna blame on Bush.
Qaqaa, all right. According to NBC’s embedded reporters who were on the scene in 2003 when the Al QaQaa dump was inspected, it was gone before our guys got there. In fact, U.N. inspectors’ reports (NOT the faked up report “leaked” by a vindictive “IAEA and its head, the anti-American Mohammed El Baradei”) indicate the ex[plosives may have been moved before the Iraq War started.
NYT: al Qaqaa, indeed…
And to top it off, originally CBS was planning on airing the story on October 31 as a last-minute “October surprise” but got “beat” by the NYT printing a story… first reported by NBC in April of 2003, but this time with a “Beat Bush” slant.)
(Credit: tons of reports all over the web, and NBC—of all the irony possible, this has to be tops.)