380 tons of explosives missing

[CagedTroll]

Originally Posted by mayfly

hey it keeps you entertained and posting! !!!

Yeah... So do porn sites.

[mayfly]

eeewwwwwwwwwww!

[luvmetender]

Originally Posted by mayfly

the rumor is 60 minutes plans on running a "special" on this old misleading news the night before the election, because they think that people don't pay enough attention to current events to realize this happened in April 2003.Jeff Fager, executive producer of the Sunday edition of 60 MINUTES, said in a statement that "our plan was to run the story on October 31." Notice the media manipulation and prejudice there.

I'm confused. NO ONE seemed to know about this... not the POTUS, not the media, not any polical people. Where is a link to the original story if it was so OUT THERE? Anyone???

[mayfly]

well I included a quote in my post. I guess someone could google for it.

[trust no one]

If you caught the Pentagon Press Conference this afternoon, you may have a huge headache now. Spokesman Larry Di Rita began with the preface that he wanted "tell the facts that we understand about this early report, about which I think people may have drawn conclusions absent those facts. . . So we've tried to accumulate our understanding about this situation."

Then, we all witnessed the following (Warning, Advil required).

MR. DIRITA: We've spent an enormous amount of time in the last week trying to better understand what happened to this 1/1000th of material that we are aware of and know about. And I caution that there is a lot that we probably don’t know . . .

The major's unit pulled 250 tons of total equipment out of this facility, including a lot of plastic explosives. How much, I don't think we know. . . .

The barrels of -- that some people have said is HMX, that I don’t know is accurate, and I'm not prepared to stipulate whether it is or is not -- was not. . . My only point on that is I'm not sure we know what the IAEA declared. . .

ABC News, question: Wait a second. Can he tell us whether that was the material, the 300-plus tons that were under IAEA seal? Can you tell us that that was the same material? Are we talking about the same material?

MR. DIRITA: If you don’t know --

MAJ. PEARSON: I don’t know. . . .

MR. DIRITA: So we're trying our best to understand it. You want a definitive answer. I think others have said that they think they know the definitive answer. We're simply saying we don't.

And it's not -- we don’t know. Certainly Major Pearson had no responsibility, and we just don’t know to this point.

Mr. Di Rita then did a fantastic job of summarizing the reason for calling the rainy Friday press conference

“I haven't seen the transcript of what the secretary said, although I was there when he made his comments. I just don't remember how precisely he worded it. What I think he would emphasize and what I'm certainly emphasizing is that there's a lot we don't know. “

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Well then. I guess we don’t know what we don’t know, and we know that!

[crazytimes]

So wait...are explosives considered WMD's? I thought Iraq didn't have any! Call me crazy, but surely 380 tons of explosives could cause some MASS DESTRUCTION??

[luvmetender]

Originally Posted by trust no one

If you caught the Pentagon Press Conference this afternoon, you may have a huge headache now. Spokesman Larry Di Rita began with the preface that he wanted "tell the facts that we understand about this early report, about which I think people may have drawn conclusions absent those facts. . . So we've tried to accumulate our understanding about this situation."

Then, we all witnessed the following (Warning, Advil required).

MR. DIRITA: We've spent an enormous amount of time in the last week trying to better understand what happened to this 1/1000th of material that we are aware of and know about. And I caution that there is a lot that we probably don’t know . . .

The major's unit pulled 250 tons of total equipment out of this facility, including a lot of plastic explosives. How much, I don't think we know. . . .

The barrels of -- that some people have said is HMX, that I don’t know is accurate, and I'm not prepared to stipulate whether it is or is not -- was not. . . My only point on that is I'm not sure we know what the IAEA declared. . .

ABC News, question: Wait a second. Can he tell us whether that was the material, the 300-plus tons that were under IAEA seal? Can you tell us that that was the same material? Are we talking about the same material?

MR. DIRITA: If you don’t know --

MAJ. PEARSON: I don’t know. . . .

MR. DIRITA: So we're trying our best to understand it. You want a definitive answer. I think others have said that they think they know the definitive answer. We're simply saying we don't.

And it's not -- we don’t know. Certainly Major Pearson had no responsibility, and we just don’t know to this point.

Mr. Di Rita then did a fantastic job of summarizing the reason for calling the rainy Friday press conference

“I haven't seen the transcript of what the secretary said, although I was there when he made his comments. I just don't remember how precisely he worded it. What I think he would emphasize and what I'm certainly emphasizing is that there's a lot we don't know. “

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Well then. I guess we don’t know what we don’t know, and we know that!

Oy vey! I don't even know what I just read!!