The Right-wing Nuts are in FULL defense mode, and with only 7 days left until the election, they're trying
ANYTHING to shift the topic from the missing
380 TONS(!) of explosives. It's just another clear example of Bush's incompetance and his failure to plan for the Iraq war. It also highlights just how far they will go to NOT admit any mistakes.
NBC talked to a reporter who was embedded with a division that "searched" the bunkers at Al QaQaa, and then Drudge latched on in a desperate attempt. Well,
here's that report the Repubs are stroking themselves over:
Amy Robach:: Was there a search at all underway or was, did a search ensue for explosives once you got there during that 24-hour period?
Lai Ling Jew: No. There wasn't a search. The mission that the brigade had was to get to Baghdad. That was more of a pit stop there for us. And, you know, the searching, I mean certainly some of the soldiers head off on their own, looked through the bunkers just to look at the vast amount of ordnance lying around. But as far as we could tell, there was no move to secure the weapons, nothing to keep looters away....
AR: And there was no talk of securing the area after you left. There was no discussion of that?
LLJ: Not for the 101st Airborne, Second Brigade. They were -- once they were in Baghdad, it was all about Baghdad, you know, and then they ended up moving north to Mosul. Once we left the area, that was the last that the brigade had anything to do with the area.
So, yeah... that really doesn't prove ANYTHING. Add to that,
troops had already been to the site before the reporter got there. I really think these Repubs need some psycological help...
maybe this will do you some good.