Sen. Cornyn: Kerry's 'Explosive' Charges Baseless and Ironic
Susan Jones, CNSNews.com
Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004
Some Republicans note that Sen. John Kerry is complaining about 380 tons of missing explosives in Iraq - but if Kerry had his way, those explosives would still be under the control of Saddam Hussein, they say.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a frequent defender of President Bush, issued a statement Tuesday blasting Kerry's New-York-Times-fueled attacks over missing explosives that once were stored at Iraq's Al-Qaqaa facility.
The weapons, according to an NBC report on Monday, had been moved from the site before coalition forces arrived in April 2003, Cornyn noted. NBC said it had a reporter embedded with coalition forces when they arrived at the site, only to find the explosives already gone.
"When U.S. and coalition troops secured more than 400,000 tons of the Hussein regime's explosives, John Kerry said nothing," Cornyn noted. "But when less than one tenth of one percent of that amount was reported missing by the New York Times, John Kerry suddenly found his voice.
"But now, after calling the administration incompetent and blundering, it turns out that John Kerry's charges Monday, as usual, were based on false assumptions," Cornyn said.
"I hope my colleague will now apologize to the brave men and women in Iraq who are working every day to secure Hussein's vast arsenal. And I hope that I am not the only one who sees the irony in the Kerry campaign complaining about the dangers of weapons that, if John Kerry had his way, would still be under the hair-trigger control of Saddam Hussein.
"Sadly, John Kerry is all too quick to criticize our men and women in uniform for short-term political gain before he has the facts. This is not a quality America needs in a commander-in-chief during a time of war."
Sen. Cornyn serves as co-chairman of the Bush campaign's Texas leadership team.
mystic said this in post #34 : Perhaps the Red Mafia is sitting on them right now...if not then the Russian government is probably aware of where these are.
Let's all let the fox guard the hen house. Geez.
Is there ANYONE who believes what Iran says? How many people fell for Saddam's lies? The same ones who are falling for Iran's lies I think.
Oh, we can talk our way out of this, after all we have France and Germany on our side as allies.
Who doesn't see what's coming?
"Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those who say this are witless." ~Ayatollah Khomeini
Hoping it will go away isn't solving the problem.
If the west left the middle-east completely, they would be waring over that too.
I guess what the left wants is just that. Let them be and the problem will somehow go away.
Impossible, they want our investments, without it, they would have to learn to eat the oil.
We have to stop letting the middle-east hold the world hostage. Find alternative energy and other suppliers or domestic oil. Tell the Saudis we will only pay $10 a barrel. That's it. Take it or leave it.
The Saudis need us as much as we need them right now. That IS going to change.
The Europeans want us out of the middle-east. I wonder why?
Can you say INVESTMENTS? They have proven that the best interest of the people is secondary to arms and oil contracts in Iraq.
"Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those who say this are witless." ~Ayatollah Khomeini
10-27-2004 07:16 AM
