Fraudulent Times Story Keeps Changing,
Bush Hits Kerry for Blaming America First
October 27, 2004
It's exasperating and it makes you mad, but it's
getting funny now to watch the New York Times try to
keep their fraudulent story alive. Greetings, my
friends, and welcome. It's the EIB Network and the
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This is Rush Limbaugh from the Limbaugh Institute for
Advanced Conservative Studies. We're happy to have you
long today. The telephone number is 800-282-2882, and
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you at RushLimbaugh.com we'll get to the Dittocam
later on in the program today. Gotta get my shirt
ironed and pressed before I turn the camera on.
The president finally addressed this today, only a
half hour ago in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at a
campaign rally, and I'll get to what the president
said in just a moment, and we have a series of three
bites here. One of them little Ricky Holbrooke, who
said to be the top candidate for secretary of state
should John Kerry win. But I have here in my formerly
nicotine-stained fingers today's New York Times story
on the missing bomb, ladies and gentlemen, from the
Al-Qaqaa ammo dump. Can we go back and restate what
the Times' story on Monday stated? The Times' story on
Monday stated that weapons are missing from the Al
Qaqaa weapons -- explosives are missing, and they gave
the distinct impression that the weapons had been
there and were lost under the watchful eye of the
incompetent Bush administration and our troops. The
impression was clearly made in the New York Times
story, even though no date was ever given for when
these bombs went missing, these explosives. The
impression was clearly given that it happened while we
were in Iraq after our invasion and during the, shall
we say, the aftermath of the invasion, recently. They
didn't give a time frame but clearly they intended to
make it -- could have been last week, could have been
last month, could have been six months ago. But the
point of the Times story was to enable John Kerry to
go out and accuse the president of incompetence and a
blunder, because the point of the Times story was that
our troops were there but we somehow weren't guarding
this, we were asleep at the wheel.
The New York Times story today has an entirely
different take to it. It is that when the troops got
there, they didn't see anything that was worth
guarding, the tone of the story has totally changed.
Now they've talked to the commanders, eh, troops
didn't even search the site, and we didn't know that
there was anything there, and we didn't see any UN
tags on any of these weapons, any of these bombs, and
so the story has changed dramatically even at the New
York Times while they try to keep it alive as a
campaign issue for Kerry. And to me this is one of the
greatest examples of how this story is a fraudulent
one to begin with. The whole premise of the first
story on Monday doesn't even survive to today through
the New York Times story. The premise was, we were
guarding the stuff, we knew what was in there, and
somehow it's vanished because Bush is incompetent,
didn't plan properly and our troops don't know what
they're doing, probably lollygagging around.
Today, nobody is sure when the stuff went missing, and
it may not have even been inspected by our troops. The
truth of the matter is the UN botched this, and old
Mohammed ElBaradei is in league with somebody here to
try to save his job because the United States is
dissatisfied with his job as the head of the
International Atomic Energy Agency at the United
Nations. This is going to boil down to being a giant
UN screw-up and it has its roots traceable now all the
way back to 1995, ladies and gentlemen, at this very
dump, at this very ammo dump, just sit tight, we're
going to make the case for all of this today.
There's also lawsuits in Florida that have already
been filed. There are 60,000 missing absentee ballots,
many of them In Broward County. Many of them are being
reported missing by Republicans. The election
officials there blaming the post office. The post
office says it isn't our fault, we didn't have them in
the mail, and there aren't enough people answering
phones from people who haven't gotten their absentee
ballots and so the whole thing is a mess. Meanwhile,
Florida lawyers have already filed suit on the equal
protection problems and so forth. Yet another federal
court ruling yesterday was favorable for the legal
process of voting in Florida. So a lot to talk about
today. But let's first go to the president in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, today, finally addressed the
missing ammo in Iraq. This is what he said about the
whole situation.
BUSH: We will still be taking our global test. Saddam
Hussein would still be in power, he would control all
those weapons and explosives and could have shared
them with our terrorist enemies. Now the senator is
making wild charges about missing explosives, when his
top foreign policy advisor admits, "We do not know the
facts." Think about that. The senator's denigrating
the action of our troops and commanders in the field
without knowing the facts. Unfortunately that's part
of a pattern of saying almost anything to get elected,
like when Senator Kerry charged that our military
failed to get Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora. Even
though our top military commander, General Tommy
Franks, said the senator's understanding of events
does not square with reality. And our intelligence
reports placed bin Laden in any of several different
countries at the time. Our military is now
investigating a number of possible scenarios,
including that the explosives may have been moved
before our troops even arrived at the site. This
investigation is important and it's on going, and a
political candidate who jumps to conclusions without
knowing the facts is not a person you want as your
commander-in-chief. (Cheers and applause.)
RUSH: All right, I'm glad he's weighed in on this
finally. Here the president then continued with this.
BUSH: When it comes to your security, when it comes to
the security of our families, my opponent takes a very
different approach. He says that September the 11th
did not change him much at all, and his policies make
that clear. He says the war on terror is primarily a
law enforcement and intelligence gathering operation.
Well, September the 11th changed me. I remember the
day I was in the -- at ground zero, on September the
14th, 2001. It's a day I will never forget. There were
workers in hard hats there yelling at me at the top of
their lungs, "Whatever it takes!" I remember a man
grabbed me by the arm, he looked me square in the eye
and he said, "Do not let me down." Ever since that day
I wake up every morning trying to figure out how to
better protect America. I will never relent on
defending America, whatever it takes.
RUSH: Now, the president says this in the midst of
John Kerry's second day of attacking America via this
TV commercial and his attempt to capitalize on this
fraudulent story from the New York Times that had a
willing participant there, CBS and 60 Minutes. And
this was not Dan Rather's 60 Minutes, by the way, this
was not 60 Minutes Wednesday, this was the 60 Minutes.
You know, remember Steve Kroft saying he was glad he
didn't work at 60 Minutes II, didn't want to be
tainted by the Rather situation. Well, the taint has
spread to encompass them all now, and wherever 60
Minutes shows, they're all tainted by this. But here's
Kerry continuing out there, ripping American troops,
ripping the president, and the thing I want to stress
about this -- and I stressed yesterday -- as Kerry
continues to talk he makes the case for going to Iraq
in the first place. It was a dangerous place. It was
an axis of evil country. All this campaign Kerry has
said it's the wrong war at the wrong place at the
wrong time. There were no weapons of mass destruction,
Bush lied. Now John Kerry and John Edwards are
horrified to learn that there were horrible weapons
over there and that some of them are missing. He's
directly contradicting himself. He'll say and do
anything, as the president said, including criticize
his own country, including always assume his own
country is wrong. He always assumes it's his own
country that makes the mistakes. Nobody else is
responsible. We've got a corrupt United Nations. His
very pet agency, the place he wants to place our
national security and defense, they are as corrupt as
they can be in any number of areas.
I'm going to tell you this. He sends Bill Clinton down
to Boca Raton yesterday and Clinton put on at yarmulke
and went out there saying John Kerry is going to be a
big friend of Israel. This is the man who had Yasser
Arafat in the White House as the most frequent
visitor. Bill Clinton, trying to claim that John Kerry
is going to be a friend of Israel. Yeah, Yasser Arafat
has come out and endorsed Kerry, by the way, for all
intents and purposes. The United Nations today,
ladies and gentlemen, is the single biggest repository
of anti-Semitism in the world today and it is the
institution that John Kerry wants to entrust the
United States' defense and national security to, even
though they are corrupt. They can't keep track of
weapons that they are supposed to keep track of. When
they've got inspectors on the ground they can't keep
track of them in Iraq. They've got the oil-for-food
program that's corrupt and yet that's the institution
John Kerry has yet to criticize. He has yet to be
critical of anything going on at the United Nations,
be it Rwanda, be it regarding Sudan or Mogadishu,
doesn't matter where, he never will criticize the UN,
but, boy, he cannot wait to criticize his own country,
he can't wait to criticize the U.S. military, he can't
wait to criticize the United States government, all
for the purposes of elevating himself to an elected
office.
Now, you heard in the opening bite the president say,
make reference to one of his senior foreign policy
advisors admitting we don't know the facts. Let me
play that bite for you. This is little Ricky
Holbrooke, the former ambassador to the UN during
Clinton. He was on Fox yesterday, the big story with
John Gibson, and Gibson said the big story today, the
380 tons of explosives, the latest from the NBC News
crew that was embedded with the soldiers when they
went through there was that they did look around, some
of it had been blown up, but they found no HMX or RDX,
the super-duper explosives. And yet Senator Kerry is
going after President Bush as if he personally
committed incompetence or malfeasance by not securing
these explosives. Is that a fair attack?
HOLBROOKE: I just read the NBC story while sitting in
your greenroom and that's not what I read it saying.
The embedded reporter said that when she and the unit
went through they didn't look very hard and then they
moved on and she didn't see anything.
RUSH: Stop the tape a second, stop the tape. This is
not the NBC reporter, Mr. Holbrooke, you're referring
to Lien Ju who works at MSNBC. Dana Lewis was the NBC
reporter who now is with Fox and was the first guest
on Brit Hume's show last night at six o'clock Eastern
time and told the opposite story from the MSNBC
reporter who was just a little producer on this trip.
So you're not reading from the NBC reporter, Mr.
Holbrooke, you're reading from the MSNBC producer.
Resume the tape.
HOLBROOKE: Three weeks later. You and I don't know
what happened. We do know one thing. The UN inspectors
and the IAEA inspectors had told the American military
this was a major depot. Everyone knew it was. And it
wasn't clarified and now the thing has been looted. I
don't know what happened.
RUSH: He doesn't know what happened, he said nobody
knows what happened, this is the quote the president
refers to, and yet Kerry is out there acting as though
he does know what happened. But the word looted,
ladies and gentlemen, is a calculatedly used word and
it is inappropriate for this situation. Looting means
that you run in there and you cherry pick a couple of
things like a TV off the shelf and you run out the
store with it. That's not what happened. It would have
taken two weeks' worth of semi-trucks to remove almost
700,000, 800,000 pounds of explosives. 800,000 pounds,
380 tons. You don't loot tonnage.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
I referenced Dana Lewis, formally of NBC, he was on
Fox News Channel Special Report with Brit Hume last
night. We have two sound bites from Dana Lewis and
Brit Hume. The first question, "So you got inside this
facility, I suppose some members of the unit might
have heard of the place, what did you see when you got
in there?"
LEWIS: Sure, they may have had information on what may
have been in there because they generally had that
kind of information. It was a tremendously large
facility. You got in and saw all sorts of bunkers
inside and, Brit, because we spent 24 hours there, I
had the chance to walk that facility, and I took it,
it was a long walk as we went from bunker to bunker
with me and my cameraman. Most of the bunkers were
locked at that point, you could not get inside. Some
of them though appeared to have been hit by air
strikes and we were told by some of the soldiers on
the ground that they had been hit by bombs, so some of
the concrete was split open and you could see
munitions in a few of the bunkers, and at one end of
the facility I could see hangars full of rockets. I've
never seen so many rockets in one place, it looked
like that facility had also been bombed from the air
and most of those rockets were bent out of shape and
inoperable.
RUSH: Now, this next bite to me is crucially
important. Brit then says, right, now, we've seen
pictures of these seals at the International Atomic
Energy Agency and the weapons inspectors used to
identify and to close off the bunkers where some of
these explosives were believed to have been kept. Did
you see any of those seals on any of the facilities as
you were walking through the area?
VOICE: I've had those seals described to me, and I can
tell you that as we went from the bunkers, certainly
there were wires and there were locks but I don't
recall ever seeing an IAEA stamp on any of them.
RUSH: The reason why this is important, my friends,
and the New York Times does not mention this I don't
believe in the story today, is that these were weapons
that the UN had previously notified us about all the
way back to 1995 as we learn and you'll hear in just a
moment -- the IAEA and the inspectors had gone in and
they had tagged all of these weapons during the
inspection process and all these explosives. Dana
Lewis is saying that when he got there with the 101st
Airborne and we've also learned that the 3rd Infantry
division got there a week earlier and they didn't see
anything either, the third ID was first in there, the
101st Airborne got there a week later on April 10th,
he was with the 101st and there were no UN stickers,
there were no seals, which means more than likely that
what was in there if it had been tagged by the UN
which they claim it had been because that's how they
know it's 380 tons, was gone before we got there,
folks, that's the relevance of this. There's one more
Dana Lewis bite. Brit Hume finally says, after you
left, describe if you can, I mean obviously we're
talking about a fairly large amount here, they say 380
tons, that would be 38 trucks loads more than likely,
that's quite a lot. Was the situation that you
witnessed around the facility such that it would have
been easy for somebody to spirit 38 tons of
explosives, or 38 tons of anything else out of there
undetected by U.S. forces in the area?
LEWIS: I think it would have been pretty tough. I mean
the roads for the most part were closed down, not very
many people were driving those roads because there was
still some shooting going on and people were worried
about getting caught in the crossfire. It would have
been hard to move trucks in there right under the
Army's noses but at the same time certainly there were
vehicles moving on the reads as we got closer to the
Baghdad, but at that moment I certainly didn't see any
lines of trucks, heading for that facility, and,
remember, who would have been ordering those trucks
down there, for all intents and purposes, the regime
had fled.
RUSH: Meaning, ladies and gentlemen, if the regime was
going to move this stuff, it would have done so before
they fled and before any U.S. troops got this there.
The bottom like is this. The New York Times reports on
Monday that munitions are missing from the Al Qaqaa
dump under the eyes of George Bush who is incompetent
and a blunderer and the U.S. military which by
association is the same thing and John Kerry readily
snaps that up and says whoa, yeah, yeah, look at this,
right under our eyes, horrible planning after the war,
no plan for peace, blah, blah, blah. New York Times
today, totally changing the timeline on the story. Now
the stuff was missing, they don't know when it's
missing, no matter what they write, they cannot tell
us when it went missing, but we do know that it didn't
get stolen under the watchful eyes of our troops
because it wasn't there when they got there, folks.
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