Kerry will win a landslide. That’s the opinion of Republican pollsters Fabrizio/McLaughlin. Check out their latest Battleground Ballot press release.
THE IRAQIS SPEAK: More bad news for the Bush campaign:
Mohammed al-Sharaa, who heads the [Iraqi] science ministry’s site monitoring department and worked with UN weapons inspectors under Saddam, said “it is impossible that these materials could have been taken from this site before the regime’s fall.” He said he and other officials had been ordered a month earlier to insure that “not even a shred of paper left the sites.” “The officials that were inside this facility (Al-Qaqaa) beforehand confirm that not even a shred of paper left it before the fall and I spoke to them about it and they even issued certified statements to this effect which the US-led coalition was aware of.”
This, of course, is just one case. But we know of many others as well. Even if this one doesn’t pan out (which is highly unlikely), we know that the invasion force didn’t secure many, many critical sites because they didn’t have enough manpower. We also know that the alleged purpose of the invasion was to secure loose weaponry, especially WMD material, and prevent it being transferred to terrorists. Hence the obvious question, raised in this blog before: Is it not clear by now that the invasion actually facilitated the transfer of such weapons? And isn’t that damning enough, whatever happened at al Qa Qaa?
The Dish 