Politics

[rivkat]

iocaste on the missing explosives and the laying of blame: Kerry needs to lay out the case that the very existence of uncertainty demonstrates Bush's incompetence. Kerry should say:

"Look, I haven't seen the NBC News report, no one has, so I don't know what they saw or didn't see. And it seems unlikely that this many explosives would disappear so quickly, or that an NBC News crew would be able to distinguish stockpiles of "ordinary" explosives from these particular types of explosives. But IAEA was only just notified this month about the missing explosives. All day, the Pentagon was unable to answer the most basic questions about the missing weapons. IAEA had warned the U.S. about them both before and after the invasion. If the weapons were gone when we got there, and if we established that by touring the facility in April 2003, why did it take until October 2004 to report their absence, and why did it take this new NBC News information for the Pentagon to assert the weapons were gone before our arrival? What steps have we taken to try to find these weapons, which very possibly are being used against our own troops right now, and can bring a plane down?

"At the very least, this kind of confusion shows that Bush cannot be trusted to be C-I-C. We should have known that the weapons were gone immediately, reported their absence immediately, and, at minimum, been able to answer questions about it immediately."

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[oneminutemovies.livejournal.com]

It's the Cedar Rapids Gazette and I doubt if anybody at the paper noticed the statement their front page was making. It would indeed be good if Kerry would connect those dots explicitly.