Kerry slams Cheney as "Minister of Disinformation" over weapons drama

SIOUX CITY, United States (AFP) - John Kerry (news - web sites) slammed Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) as "Minister of Disinformation," and accused the White House of "dodging and bobbing and weaving" to evade blame over missing explosives in Iraq (news - web sites).



Just six days before the US election, the Democratic challenger sought to fan the controversy over the missing 350 tonnes of high explosives, arguing the issue proved President George W. Bush (news - web sites) unfit for a second term in office.


"What we're seeing is this White House dodging and bobbing and weaving in their usual effort to avoid responsibility, just as they've done every step of the way in our involvement in Iraq," Kerry said, at a rally in Iowa, where he is running neck and neck with Bush.

"Vice President Dick Cheney who is becoming the Chief Minister of Disinformation, echoed that it's not the administration's fault and even criticized those who raised the subject.

More:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1506&ncid=696&e=1&u=/afp/20041027/ts_alt_afp/us_vote_kerry

Instead of Baghdad Bob, We have DC DICK!!

and liars, just like Kerry said from day one.

:D

The Minister of Disinformation !!

ROTFLMAO.

It sounds so Outrageously Righteous, because it is so true !

minister of disinformation...spread it!!

AWESOME line Johnny-boy.. keep rocking to the perfect beat all the way to the white house..

we don't HAVE 'Ministers' in the United States!"

OK, Secretary of Disinformation...

routine done by John Cleese?

He and the rest of the neoCONS fail to adhere to basic principles we expect of a kindergartner: honesty and personal responsibility. They are the lowest grade leadership ever in American history!!!

With every idiotic denial, the admin. is digging themselves deeper...gotta love it!

He knows just like everyone else that it is not true as presented by the NY Times. It is going to backfire on him.

The story was known to be bogus the day after the Times printed it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6323933

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An NBC News crew that accompanied U.S. soldiers who seized the Al-Qaqaa base three weeks into the war in Iraq reported that troops discovered significant stockpiles of bombs, but no sign of the missing HMX and RDX explosives.

Reporter Lai Ling Jew, who was embedded with the Army’s 101st Airborne, Second Brigade, said Tuesday on MSNBC TV that the news team stayed at the Al-Qaqaa base for about 24 hours.

‘No move to secure the weapons’
“There wasn’t a search,” she said. “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 headed off on their own, looked through the bunkers just to look at the vast amount of ordnance lying around.

--snip--

Or maybe you'd like to hear from the unit commander himself?

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But the unit's commander said in an interview yesterday that his troops had not searched the site and had merely stopped there overnight.

The commander, Col. Joseph Anderson, of the Second Brigade of the Army's 101st Airborne Division, said he did not learn until this week that the site, Al Qaqaa, was considered sensitive, or that international inspectors had visited it before the war began in 2003 to inspect explosives that they had tagged during a decade of monitoring.

Colonel Anderson, who is now the chief of staff for the division and who spoke by telephone from Fort Campbell, Ky., said his troops had been driving north toward Baghdad and had paused at Al Qaqaa to make plans for their next push.

"We happened to stumble on it,'' he said. "I didn't know what the place was supposed to be. We did not get involved in any of the bunkers. It was not our mission. It was not our focus. We were just stopping there on our way to Baghdad. The plan was to leave that very same day. The plan was not to go in there and start searching. It looked like all the other ammunition supply points we had seen already."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/politics/27bomb.html?...

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Hmm, maybe the Iraqi's support your moronic statement? Nope:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/iraq_us_explosives

Iraq says 'impossible' explosives taken before regime fall

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Keep it up and people might start to think you're a deluded idiot...

uneducated non-news reading bunch of folks...

(NOT!!)

where are they now? who took them? and when did they go missing?

?

:eyes:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6323933

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An NBC News crew that accompanied U.S. soldiers who seized the Al-Qaqaa base three weeks into the war in Iraq reported that troops discovered significant stockpiles of bombs, but no sign of the missing HMX and RDX explosives.

Reporter Lai Ling Jew, who was embedded with the Army’s 101st Airborne, Second Brigade, said Tuesday on MSNBC TV that the news team stayed at the Al-Qaqaa base for about 24 hours.

‘No move to secure the weapons’
“There wasn’t a search,” she said. “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 headed off on their own, looked through the bunkers just to look at the vast amount of ordnance lying around.

--snip--

Or maybe you'd like to hear from the unit commander himself?

--snip--

But the unit's commander said in an interview yesterday that his troops had not searched the site and had merely stopped there overnight.

The commander, Col. Joseph Anderson, of the Second Brigade of the Army's 101st Airborne Division, said he did not learn until this week that the site, Al Qaqaa, was considered sensitive, or that international inspectors had visited it before the war began in 2003 to inspect explosives that they had tagged during a decade of monitoring.

Colonel Anderson, who is now the chief of staff for the division and who spoke by telephone from Fort Campbell, Ky., said his troops had been driving north toward Baghdad and had paused at Al Qaqaa to make plans for their next push.

"We happened to stumble on it,'' he said. "I didn't know what the place was supposed to be. We did not get involved in any of the bunkers. It was not our mission. It was not our focus. We were just stopping there on our way to Baghdad. The plan was to leave that very same day. The plan was not to go in there and start searching. It looked like all the other ammunition supply points we had seen already."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/politics/27bomb.html ?...

--snip--

Hmm, maybe the Iraqi's support your moronic statement? Nope:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/iraq...

Iraq says 'impossible' explosives taken before regime fall

--snip--

Keep it up and people might start to think you're a deluded idiot...

I'm sure you have links to back that up or was it just the tired old repub spin masters that Saddam took them.

fool who believes Drudge? That shit is old and tired and makes you look like a moron.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6323933

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An NBC News crew that accompanied U.S. soldiers who seized the Al-Qaqaa base three weeks into the war in Iraq reported that troops discovered significant stockpiles of bombs, but no sign of the missing HMX and RDX explosives.

Reporter Lai Ling Jew, who was embedded with the Army’s 101st Airborne, Second Brigade, said Tuesday on MSNBC TV that the news team stayed at the Al-Qaqaa base for about 24 hours.

‘No move to secure the weapons’
“There wasn’t a search,” she said. “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 headed off on their own, looked through the bunkers just to look at the vast amount of ordnance lying around.

--snip--

Or maybe you'd like to hear from the unit commander himself?

--snip--

But the unit's commander said in an interview yesterday that his troops had not searched the site and had merely stopped there overnight.

The commander, Col. Joseph Anderson, of the Second Brigade of the Army's 101st Airborne Division, said he did not learn until this week that the site, Al Qaqaa, was considered sensitive, or that international inspectors had visited it before the war began in 2003 to inspect explosives that they had tagged during a decade of monitoring.

Colonel Anderson, who is now the chief of staff for the division and who spoke by telephone from Fort Campbell, Ky., said his troops had been driving north toward Baghdad and had paused at Al Qaqaa to make plans for their next push.

"We happened to stumble on it,'' he said. "I didn't know what the place was supposed to be. We did not get involved in any of the bunkers. It was not our mission. It was not our focus. We were just stopping there on our way to Baghdad. The plan was to leave that very same day. The plan was not to go in there and start searching. It looked like all the other ammunition supply points we had seen already."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/politics/27bomb.html?oref=login&oref=login

--snip--

Keep it up and people might start to think you're a deluded idiot...

invasion!

lipstick wearing pig!!!!!!

That would be like me going in to secure a facility run by terrorists, take all the ak-47 clips, grenades, rpgs, tank shells, missiles, and leave the tacticle nukes.

Friggin moron.

Kerry isn't blaming our troops. He's blaming the president ! Sheer incompetence !

that's perfect...can't wait until we don't have to look at him sneering over the microphone.....