Missing Explosives 2: Electric Boogaloo

From Powerline:

Here is what we know so far about the facts related by Major Austin Pearson at today’s news conference:

A U.S. Army officer came forward Friday and said a team from the 3rd Infantry Division took about 200 tons of explosives from the Al-Qaqaa munitions base soon after Saddam Hussein’s regime fell last year.

Major Austin Pearson appeared at a Pentagon news conference to say it was his mission to go the facility and clear explosives from the base. He said he did not discover that the International Atomic Energy Agency had reported 377 tons of explosives were missing until Tuesday night and he said he promptly contacted military officials.

No word yet on whether Major Pearson can confirm that the explosives his team destroyed were the “missing” RDX, HMX, and PETN.

Interesting. This could blow up right in the faces of everyone who tried to pin it on Bush *or* the troops. If this pans out, coupled with what went missing (possibly on those semis before we got there) and what was left when the video was shot (the 18th), all 377 tons are accounted for. The demolition is supposed to have taken place on the 13th.

This magic video the left was so counting on to make Bush into the bad guy? Could be absolutely meaningless. In fact, since it shows nothing of any RDX, HMX or PETN, it strengthens the case that the explosives were gone before the crew arrived.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why people like Moore and John Kerry, and apparently the reporters and editors at CBS and the New York Times, cannot be trusted.  Rather than investigate and vet information, they throw wild accusations, knowing that the accusation itself creates enough guilt in the average American’s mind.  We must be better than that.  Question everything you’re told by people with agendas.  And that includes me.

Right now, the only thing that is 100% absolutely known for sure is that John Kerry jumped on this story almost before it went to press and had a campaign attack commercial out the very day it broke (Monday).  And he still, to this moment, doesn’t know the facts, nor has he apologized for attcking Bush (just like he never apologized to Cheney over his retarded ‘flu shot’ hissy fit).

Looks markedly like a man who never admits a mistake no matter how public and obvious that mistake was.