NBC News reports tonight that one of their embedded crews was with the 101st when it entered the Al Qaqqaa facility reported to contain the 380 tons of weapons -- the weapons whose presence within Iraq would seem to confirm the nature of Saddam's threat, but whose disappearance was blamed solely by Kerry on the man in the Oval. Turns out, our troops (and NBC) took the facility the day after the liberation of Iraq on 4/9/03, and voila! The weapons weren't there when the military arrived.
Our troops were on top of the site from the start and the material in question wasn't there.
So, lesson seems to be, if you throw out your campaign playbook for the day because of one headline, better make sure it's gonna hold up.
Nice to see the news cycle contain some self-correction within the Big Media, making John Kerry’s latest ripped from the headlines attack exceptionally wrong, typically opportunistic, and unusually revealing. His apparent joy (masked as false sorrow and blame-laying) at the bad news will fade. His hopes for another change-of-subject news cycle will not.
jaybo -- Ignore Col. Peacock. Ignore the testing. Think happy thoughs and whistle a happy tune past the graveyard.
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Posted by: Jeffraham Prestonian | October 27, 2004 at 09:45 AM
Again Jeffraham,
You need to take another hit from your crack pipe and read my post again.
It does not mention Col. Peacock.
It, in fact, mentions the "darling" of the liberal press, The New York Times.
Posted by: jaybo | October 27, 2004 at 09:56 AM