There's a theory out there that says the more you talk
about it, the more it keeps it front and center and it
doesn't really persuade anybody. But sorry, I can't
look at it that way, folks. This is an outrage. It's
an attempt to impact the election, and at the root of
it is the United Nations, and particularly Mohammed
ElBaradei and it gives rise to the question of, is
there any collaboration between the Kerry campaign and
the UN on this? Also we have basically an endorsement
of Senator Kerry from insurgent terrorists in Iraq.
I'm not making this up. These guys, I've got the news
story here, they're all excited that Kerry might win
because it means the U.S. will get out of Iraq, and
there's a number of terrorists quoted and Middle
Eastern intellectuals. So we'll get to all of that as
the program unfolds today. But from the New York Sun:
Urgent Warning on Iraqi Cache Issued in 1995.
"Nine years ago, U.N. weapons inspectors urgently
called on the International Atomic Energy Agency to
demolish powerful plastic explosives in a facility
that Iraq's interim government said this month was
looted due to poor security. The chief American
weapons inspector, Charles Duelfer, told The New York
Sun yesterday that in 1995, when he was a member of
the U.N. inspections team in Iraq, he urged the United
Nations' atomic watchdog to remove tons of explosives
that have since been declared missing. Mr. Duelfer
said he was rebuffed at the time by the Vienna-based
agency because its officials were not convinced the
presence of the HMX, RDX, and PETN explosives was
directly related to Saddam Hussein's programs to amass
weapons of mass destruction."
Now, imagine that, in 1995 Charles Duelfer asks the
International Atomic Agency, whatever it is, it's a
tongue twister for me, the International Atomic Energy
Agency to get rid of this stuff, and the IAEA said,
ah, no, this stuff, we don't need to get rid of this
stuff, it's not part of Saddam's weapons of mass
destruction. If you listen to John Kerry today it may
as well be, if you read the New York Times this stuff
is the most deadly stuff ever known to exist in the
world, folks. We're acting like literal nuclear
weapons have been stolen by people.
The level of hysteria and panic over this is exceeded
only by the collusion between big media and the UN to
pull this off, and yet back in '95 Duelfer tells the
Mohammed ElBaradei group -- although he's not there
then -- to get rid of the stuff, said, ah, naw, it's
not that big a deal. "By e-mail, Mr. Duelfer wrote the
Sun, 'The policy was if acquired for the WMD program
and used for it, it should be subject for destruction.
The HMX was just that. Nevertheless the IAEA decided
to let Iraq keep the stuff, like they needed more
explosives.'" The IAEA allowed Saddam to keep the HMX,
the RDX, and the PET and explosives because they
didn't think it had anything to do with weapons of
mass destruction. So how do we get all these stories
today that we got nuclear triggers as part of the
things that have been stolen and all these detonators
and all these munitions. Duelfer told the IAEA to get
rid of this in 1995 and they ignore it.
Now, something about this. None of this is jiving with
the way the New York Times is reporting this story.
"In 1995, Mr. ElBaradei was an assistant director of
the the atomic-energy agency for external relations.
His boss, Hans Blix, eventually took over the U.N.
inspections team that was on the ground in Iraq before
the war. Mr. Blix argued, in a book published after
his retirement, that Iraq lacked the weapons programs
American and European intelligence said it had kept
concealed. Mr. Duelfer came to a similar conclusion,
although he stressed in his report that Mr. Hussein
had the intent to restart those programs."
So here's Blix in the thick of this along with
ElBaradei back in 1995 and even as recently as a
couple years ago when Blix's book on all this came
out. This stuff was not that big a deal. It couldn't
be used for weapons of mass destruction, but in 1995,
nevertheless, it was ordered to be destroyed, and the
UN said no. "After a behind-the-scenes battle inside
the State Department this summer, the Bush
administration opted to reject Mr. ElBaradei's bid for
a third term as director general of the atomic energy
agency. At the time, Washington was collecting
intelligence - disputed by some agencies - that Mr.
ElBaradei was providing advice to Iran on how to avoid
sanction from his organization for its previously
undisclosed uranium enrichment programs."
Now, let's take a look at this ElBaradei guy. On his
watch, India and Pakistan get to the brink of nuclear
detonation. On his watch, Libya gets away with a
nuclear weapons program that nobody knows they have.
On his watch, the Iranians continue to build a nuclear
weapons program and nothing's been done about it, and
now, within the past three months, it has been
learned that the United States hopes to get rid of Mr.
ElBaradei and replace him at the Atomic Energy Agency
because they collected intelligence that he was
providing advice to Iran on how to avoid sanctions
from his organization for its uranium enrichment
program, and this is the guy that is largely closely
tied to the New York Times story that is obviously a
fraudulent story and is misleading and is designed to
impact the outcome of an election. Mohammed ElBaradei,
I don't think this guy has ever been a real friend of
America, but if this is true that he's helping Iran
avoid sanctions and avoid discovery of its uranium
enrichment program, ladies and gentlemen, this is
serious stuff, and this is John Kerry's agency. This
is the place John Kerry wants to go, this is the place
John Kerry will not criticize, these are the things
John Kerry knows he will not criticize. He will not
lift a voice or a finger in criticism of the United
Nations, but, boy, let the United States come under
his glance, and he will criticize and do it happily.
He will always rush to blame America first, exonerate
his prestigious UN.
Newsmax has gone back in time to their archives. Get
this. On February 15th, 2003, the New York Times
reported on an address to the United Nations Security
Council by Mohammed ElBaradei, the UN's chief nuclear
watchdog "covered extensively" by the New York Times
ElBaradei shared his concern about the removal of high
explosives from facilities like Al Qaqaa. He said, "We
have also continued to investigate the relocation and
consumption of the high explosives HMX," ElBaradei
explained a month before the invasion. As I reported
earlier, Iraq has declared that 32 tons of the HMX
previously under IAEA seals had been transferred for
use in the production of industrial explosives,
primarily to cement plants as a booster for explosives
in quarrying. ElBaradei noted that Saddam's government
had even confirmed the movement of the HMX. In quotes
picked up by The Times 21 months ago.
So the New York Times itself reported back in February
of 2003 that ElBaradei himself reported on the
movement of HMX inside Iraq and that all of these
containers had seals, which Dana Lewis said when he
got into the Al Qaqaa facility didn't see any seals,
didn't see any UN IAEA seals, meaning they had been
inspected and tagged which means the stuff was long
gone before anybody wearing a United States uniform
got there. And the New York Times knows it and wait
till you hear a CBS story from about this time, they
knew it, too. They ignore their own archives. They
ignore what they have all previously reported
themselves in order to shape this news story to make
it appear as though these weapons went missing
yesterday or last week or last month, under the
watchful eye of the United States, why, this is
amazing this stuff got looted while we're there, Bush
is just incompetent.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
CBSNews.com, from their archives, near Baghdad, April
4th, 2003. This is a week before April 10th. April the
10th, remember, that's when the 101st Airborne went
into Al Qaqaa. That's where Dana Lewis was with them.
This was April 4th. "U.S. troops found thousands of
boxes of white powder, nerve agent antidote and Arabic
documents on how to engage in chemical warfare at an
industrial site south of Baghdad, but a center U.S.
official familiar with testing said the materials were
believed to be explosives. Colonel John Peabody,
engineer brigade commander, the 3rd Infantry Division,
said the materials were found Friday at the Latifia,
industrial complex just south of Baghdad. 'It is
clearly a suspicious site,' said Peabody. CBS national
security correspondent David Martin reports that the
hunt for weapons of mass destruction continues at
sites where the U.S. thought chemical weapons might be
hidden. Although there are no reports of actual
weapons being found, there are constant finds of
suspicious material. It obviously will take laboratory
testing to find out exactly what the powder is." Now,
Latifia, is near Al Qaqaa. And this is before Baghdad
fell. Baghdad fell on April 9th. We're in there, we're
looking around. This is not the necessarily the same
stuff but this plant had been bombed by U.S. jets
during the Gulf War, the facility had been identified
by the International Atomic Energy Agency as a
suspected chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons
site, UN inspectors had visited the plant at least
nine times including as recently as February 18th,
2003.
CBS News yesterday, 'Why GIs Did Not Hunt Explosives'.
"The first U.S. military units to reach the Al Qaqaa
military installation south of Baghdad after the
invasion of Iraq did not have orders to search for
some 350 tons of explosives that are now said to be
missing. 'We were still in a fight,' said the
commander of the U.S. military unit that was first to
arrive in the area in an interview with CBS News
national security correspondent David Martin. Charles
Duelfer, the head of the unit that did the
investigation, special unit known as Task Force 75
told CBS News yesterday that he has not received any
orders to go looking for the missing explosives and
doesn't think he should. 'It's hard for me to get that
worked up about it,' said Duelfer in a phone interview
from Baghdad, noting that Iraq is awash in hundreds of
thousands of tons of explosives."
The point of this story is, I don't have time to read
the whole thing because time is vanishing, the point
of this story is the UN could have destroyed these
weapons, this material, starting from 1995 to the
present, and did not do it. After they were asked to
do it by Charles Duelfer and suggested that it be
done, Hans Blix refused to do it, the International
Atomic Energy Agency refused to do it, the UN refused
to do it, could have destroyed these explosives, but
nobody did. All the way back to 1995. And the fact of
the matter is that when our troops get there they were
not there, they were not there. The idea that they
went missing recently or have been looted is simply a
creation of a creative mind-set at the New York Times
and CBS to try to give John Kerry something to talk
about to close that gap that shows him down 52-39 in
an internal poll, all the internal polls, on who is
best suited to handle the situation in Iraq.
Now, there's a great piece today at one of our
favorite websites here, the American Thinker. This is
a piece by Douglas Hanson. It's a pretty long piece.
Douglas Hanson is the military affairs correspondent
for AmericanThinker.com, but during the summer of 2003
he was the chief of staff of the Ministry of Science
and Technology for the Coalition Provisional Authority
in Iraq.
"The latest slam of the Bush Administration by the
combined forces of the United Nations� International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the New York Times, CBS,
and the Kerry campaign, repeats on old pattern. The
leading lights of the legacy media have their own
agenda, one that considerably overlaps that of the
Kerry forces. But the IAEA is not merely driven by
animus towards Bush. That United Nations agency also
needs to cover up its own ineffectiveness and
incompetence by shifting attention and blame to the
Bush Administration, while waiting for a more
congenial President of the United States to take
office, one who won�t be tempted to investigate its
numerous inadequacies, nor pursue the investigations
of the criminality within its parent. The
'disappearing explosives' incident, in other words, is
simply the latest firefight between the US and the
IAEA over the UN�s complete and utter failure to
enforce the provisions of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
(NPT) with the nations of the Axis of Evil.
"Iraq is essentially one big ammo dump. The collection
and destruction of all of Saddam�s munitions are
proceeding apace under the occupation. So far almost
248,000 tons of ammo have been destroyed or captured,
out of an estimated 600,000 tons. This is no small
feat. Before the war and during the initial
occupation, it was thought Iraq�s munitions were
scattered among ammo storage dumps numbering over 130
sites. However, by June of this year, Charles Duelfer
and the Iraqi Survey Group (ISG) had determined that
there were approximately 8,700 ammo dumps in Iraq!"
And we are talking about one of them today.
This is a long piece. I haven't time to finish it here
before we have to go to the break. But the central
point, let me just read you the last graph. "Not only
are the NYT, and apparently CBS News (again!),
attempting to influence a US Presidential election,
they have become the public relations firm of a
corrupt UN and its nuclear inspection agency that
allowed a madman to keep materials and equipment in
violation of a treaty that the UN was duty-bound to
enforce."
This buttresses the story that goes back to 1985 that
the IAEA refused to destroy the munitions and bombs in
the Al Qaqaa dump. Hans Blix refused to do it on the
basis this they weren't part of the WMD program. They
were just explosives, it wasn't that big a deal, they
had more important things to do. Now these things have
gone missing and nobody can tell us, not the New York
Times, and not CBS, and not Richard Holbrooke, and not
John Kerry, and not John Edwards, and not Joe
Lockhart, nobody else in the media can tell us when
they went missing. All we know is that the United
Nations is corrupt, it is incompetent, it is incapable
of enforcing its own resolutions as we know, and they
are attempting, working with the New York Times and
CBS, to shift blame to the Bush administration. And
there's old John Kerry willing to criticize his own
country at the snap of a finger to jump in and carry
the water for them.
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