THAT NBC SCOOP: Before crashing Monday night, I was bombarded with emails
informing me that NBC had reported that the explosives at al Qa Qaa were
gone before the U.S. troops arrived. But last night, Tom Brokaw reported as
follows:
"Last night on this broadcast we reported that the 101st Airborne never
found the nearly 380 tons of HMX and RDX explosives. We did not conclude the
explosives were missing or had vanished, nor did we say they missed the
explosives. We simply reported that the 101st did not find them. For its
part, the Bush campaign immediately pointed to our report as conclusive
proof that the weapons had been removed before the Americans arrived. That
is possible, but that is not what we reported."
Just for the record.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY: "The commander of the first unit into the area told CBS he
did not search it for explosives or secure it from looters. 'We were still
in a fight,' he said. 'Our focus was killing bad guys.' He added he would
have needed four times more troops to search and secure all the ammo dumps
he came across." - CBS' latest press release on the missing explosives. Four
times more troops. But that would have meant doing it right.

Not enough troops.

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