Iraq Explosives Become Issue in Campaign

[Jon8503]

By DAVID E. SANGER
New York Times
Published: October 26, 2004

DAVENPORT, Iowa, Oct. 25 - The White House sought on Monday to explain the disappearance of 380 tons of high explosives in Iraq that American forces were supposed to secure, as Senator John Kerry seized on the missing cache as "one of the great blunders of Iraq" and said President Bush's "incredible incompetence" had put American troops at risk.

Mr. Bush never mentioned the disappearance of the high explosives during a long campaign speech in Greeley, Colo., about battling terrorism. Instead, evoking images of the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks and traveling with Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor, at his side, Mr. Bush made an impassioned appeal to voters to let him "finish the work we have started." But he also charged that his opponent had abandoned the defense principles of Democrats like John F. Kennedy.

"Senator Kerry has turned his back on 'Pay any price and bear any burden,' " Mr. Bush charged, "and he has replaced those commitments with 'wait and see' and 'cut and run.' "

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/26/politics/campaign/26campaign.html?hp&ex=1098763200&en=9041c394e6b0d150&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[LynnTheDem]

1. First time I've ever heard that's what Kerry's "replaced"

Only person I've ever heard talk of 'wait and see' and 'cut and run' is BUSH.

And he sure does loooooove making shit up about what other people actually never say.

[Infomaniac]

2. This from a guy whose philosophy is...

Let 'em loot. Amazing. I don't know about freedom marching anywhere but those high explosives marched somewhere.

[NightOwwl]

3. I'm sorry, but I can't take it anymore.

Bush is out of his fucking mind.

[CityHall]

4. Funny, I remember from the debates

Kerry said we should inspect the container ships and defend the borders, and Bush said, "I don't know how he's going to pay for all that." "Pay any price and bear any burden" indeed.