OT Politicals

[Andrew & Rebeca Anderson]

It was briefly reported following the NY Times story but then seems to have 
faded.  There is a conflicting story coming from the ABC network with film 
footage so this may not be as clear as it had seemed.  The Pentagon is now 
investigating, I don't think it would be healthy for me to hold my breath 
until the report comes out. ;-)  Looks like our news people might be doing 
their job.
If there was a slam-dunk answer it should have been trumpeted by now, 
election season and all.

Andrew
At 12:20 PM 11/1/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Andrew,
>
> > According to an embedded NBC reporter and a sergeant from the airborne
> > division that attacked and took the place they weren't there when it was
> > "liberated".
>
>I apparently missed this item.  I searched the web for it and found it on a
>gizillion radical right-wing blogs, such as on white supremicist web sites.
>However, I'm having trouble finding it elsewhere, except these field notes
>from correspondent Dana Lewis on Fox News:
>
>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,136826,00.html
>
>I quote Ms. Lewis:
>
>"We walked around dozens of concrete bunkers that were still closed. Many
>still had padlocks on the doors and in another section we saw dozens and
>dozens of rockets, most of them damaged from U.S. air strikes."
>"Some of the bunkers also had taken bomb strikes and had gaping holes. I saw
>no tags left by the International Atomic Energy Agency (search) used to seal
>the explosives, but we were never told what to look for and they could have
>been there."
>
>So according to Ms. Lewis, there were lots of locked bunkers in an ENORMOUS
>compound that were not searched, because nobody told them to look for
>explosives there.  To my eyes, this doesn't suggest that the explosives were
>not there.  The logical conclusion would be that they were in the multitudes
>of bunkers that were not searched.  It says to me that there was a failure
>in command, whereby troops were not dispatched to secure these explosives,
>based on pre-invasion information from the UN weapons inspectors.  Indeed, I
>don't hear Mr. Bush citing these field notes from Dana Lewis.  He shrugs
>sheepishly and says, "I take full responsibility on this one."  In other
>words, he admits that he (or his administration) screwed up, but he says it
>in a "noble" way.
>
>Of course I may not know the full story.  Do you have a reputable source
>that suggests the bunkers were actually *searched* by the 2nd Brigade of the
>101st when it was there on Apr 10, 2003?  Or was it merely a matter of this
>unit being in the neighborhood and not casually noticing anything?
>
>Peace,
>Sarah
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andrew & Rebeca Anderson" <anrebe@zianet.com>
>To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 4:13 PM
>Subject: Re: OT Politicals
>
>
> > Don,
> > According to an embedded NBC reporter and a sergeant from the airborne
> > division that attacked and took the place they weren't there when it was
> > "liberated".  The explosives were itemized by UN inspectors before the
>war,
> > not after.  Btw, that same officer went on to supervise the destruction of
> > over a 1000 tons of munitions at that site.  It seems that Muhommad al
> > Baridi's attempt at an October Surprise has fizzled in face of the
> > documented facts.  Too bad for Kerry that he jumped on that band-wagon
> > before reviewing the facts.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > At 01:31 AM 10/30/2004 +0000, you wrote:
> > >Hi Dale,
> > >
> > >They were itemized and under US control. Bush has managed to allow them
>to
> > >be stolen.
> > >
> > >At 12:59 AM 30/10/2004 EDT, you wrote:
> > > >        Julia  & they were a banned weaponry under the U.N. sanctions.
> > > >Hmmmm, why weren't they found before. I mean they were there looking
>for 11
> > > > years afterall.    Dale
> > > >   I am confused. I thought they said Bush lied  Then today, they said
>that
> > > >     of the 380 tons of materials, a portion of it was the type of
> > > >explosives      that were necessary components to make/detinate nuclear
> > > > weapons.
> > > >
> > > >               Aren't nuclear weapons weapons of mass destruction?
> > > >
> > > >Julia
> > > >Reading, PA
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
> > >Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat
> > >
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