Bush administration says Russia, France took Iraq explosives

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=8fe53a229e77be3f

Bush administration says Russia, France took Iraq explosives
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Big News Network.com Friday 29th October, 2004

The Bush administration's latest explanation for 380 tons of explosives missing from Iraq is that Russian troops took them, the Financial Post said Thursday.

Deputy Undersecretary for Defense John Shaw told the newspaper there was intelligence the French were also involved in the removal of the explosives from the al-Qaqaa depot before the war began last year.

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What the Hell!!!

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Highly dubious

Big News Network is one of these internet sites that copy stories from elsewhere.

What country do the 'Financial Post' publish in? Perhaps they mean the Financial Times, which did have an interview with Shaw. Notice that the headline is misleading - Shaw never said the French took anything away - he just accused them of selling things to the Iraqis.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/a859c894-287f-11d9-9308-00000e2511c8.html

So it's a misleading headline, from a website that can't tell us the name of the newspaper it's reading properly. There's also another DU story that Rumsfeld has now said this is the first he's heard of the Russians being involved.

[goforit]

2. Always pointing their slimey finger at some one else!...WHIMPS!!!!!!!

[Orangepeel]

3. Freedom explosives!

I can't believe they are blaming the French. This administration is so predictable that they are like a cartoon.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Like a recalcitrant kid caught in a lie

this administration keeps getting more bazaar

[young_at_heart]

5. Bush has demonstated so well that he has all the answers

We can trust what the administration says because they are very trustworthy and we know without a doubt that they have "leadership". It's so obvious.....so let's not make a big deal out of this too!

[mcerise]

6. France?

I almost hope that this makes it to the media... maybe then in comparison to France, people will realize how ridiculous the Russia story is.

[d_b]

10. Yes

The french, the Russians, the United Nations, Michael Moore and Jane Fonda took the explosives.

[Mandate My Ass]

17. LOL, Bush got punked by France but he can keep us safer than Kerry?

Remeber how the Freepers howled about what wusses the French were when they didn't send their troops to serve as cannon fodder for Bush's crusade? Remember how they said the cheese-eating surrender monkeys would be speaking German if it wasn't for the good ole macho US of A?

Now we're supposed to believe they have ninja-like capability to sneak under GPS tracking into a country that posed an imminent threat and was being scrupulously monitored by the most powerful military in the world and stole hundreds of tons of explosives without our knowledge?

I guess they beamed themselves with a Clingon cloaking device into that area around Tikrit and Baghdad and the east, west, south and north somewhat...

OMG, this is side-splitting idiocy.

[PurityOfEssence]

7. Them again

Well la-di-da. Ya just can't trust them froggies and bears.

[Drifter]

8. If they don't have them ...

then I would say that the President has "Jumped to Conclusions". You can't have a President who jumps to conclusions.

That's it, I'm voting for Kerry.

Cheers
Drifter

[brooklynite]

9. Easy to prove...

Simply have Chirac or Putin come out and admit it.

[Cocoa]

11. you forgot Germany!

[Iceburg]

12. There goes Putin's endorsement

[OutsourceBush]

13. BREAKING NEWS!!! I KNOW WHO STOLE THE EXPLOSIVES!

It was my mom. I am sorry, she is very sorry and regrets stealing the 380 tons of explosives in the a war zone. She is neither French or Russian, so I don't know where they got that crap from. She feels much better since she came forward. Hope this helps.

[yardwork]

14. Oh now it's the French!!!!

rotfl!!!

[maddezmom]

15. dupe of a dupe of a dupe :)

do a search of John Shaw....

edited: cuz my link didn't work :(

[chieftain]

16. These people are so irresponsible ,

that they are willing to lie about other countries in order to ride out a bad story . The cynicism would be astounding , were it not for the fact that it has been the order of the day since these thugs were imposed on our country and the world .

[Clyde39]

18. More confusion, more secrecy---it NEVER ends

Since Bush took office we've had nothing but mayhem. He's like the Energizer Bunny----he keeps on going with nothing but negative outcomes!

[Moderator]

19. This was locked earlier

This is what Skinner wrote on another post on this same subject

Skinner ADMIN (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-28-04 05:12 PM
Response to Original message

3. This Russia special ops story has been thoroughly discredited.


I'm locking.