by robertdreed » Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:46 am
Yeah, that news certainly doesn't originate with Noam Chomsky. It was reported in the national media- as such. It had about 15 seconds in the news cycle. Blink and you missed it.<br><br>Thankfully, references remain on the Internet. (Note that in the pre-Internet era, you'd have to search a newspaper archive on microfiche to find the story. That's one of the things that makes the Internet an unparalleled medium, for news journalism and hostorical research, once the phony baloney is culled. ) <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.channel4.com/news/2004/10/week_5/25_iraq.html">www.channel4.com/news/200..._iraq.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>It was of course explained away as a "blunder." If so, I think it was one of the biggest blunders in military history. The importance of the missing explosive is minimized and downplayed. The fact remains that it was inexcusable. These weren't just any "munitions." <br><br> <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/25/iraq.explosives/index.html">www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/me...index.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>...The Iraqi letter to the IAEA identified the vanished explosives as containing 194.7 metric tons of HMX, or "high melting point explosive," 141.2 metric tons of RDX, or "rapid detonation explosive," among other designations, and 5.8 metric tons of PETN, or "pentaerythritol tetranitrate."<br><br>Fleming said the IAEA, whose mission is to keep track of everything with potential nuclear weapons applications, had been monitoring about 100 sites in Iraq, but there were only a few of special concern, including Al Qaqaa.<br><br>"This is a real massive quantity of explosives that could have reached the hands of insurgents and could be used with deadly force and consequences against people in Iraq," Fleming said.<br><br>"One would have to assume it's been stolen by someone who has some sort of nefarious purpose for it."...</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/26/iraq.explosives/index.html">www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/me...index.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br>If it was intentional, purposive, deliberate negligence with the goal of perpetuating and escalating a high level of armed resistance by the anti-coaltion forces in Iraq, by providing them access to huge quantities of explosives- well, if that could be proven, the people responsible deserve to be tried and convicted for murder conspiracy. <br><br>Intent is always the hardest thing to prove, of course. <br><br>Other "funny business"- <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/12/iraq.nuclear/index.html">www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/me...index.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=robertdreed>robertdreed</A> at: 1/14/06 11:01 pm<br></i>