NYT's EXPLOSIVES BLOW UP KERRY CAMPAIGN

John Kerry may be putting the final nail in his own campaign coffin. Left with nothing to bolster his flagging campaign, Kerry has taken to hysterically repeating a quickly debunked NYT story about 380-400 tons of explosives missing from Iraq. Given the plethora of weapons and explosives in Iraq, missing 300-400 tons is kind of like Kerry’s billionaires wife, Teresa being off $10 on her checkbook balance. Sure, it’s annoying but in the big picture it doesn’t mean much.

Now, not only has the premises of the story, that the US failed to secure the explosives, has been debunked but it appears that the Russians might have helped Saddam move the explosives to Syria before the war. If this true, what else did they help move? How about Iraq’s WMD? Enough doubt is raised in the minds of thinking people for them to say to themselves, “Hey maybe this was the right war at the right time for the right reason.” Everybody including John Kerry and Bill Clinton said Iraq had the WMD. What happened to them? If Vladimir Putin comes forward with information about Russian involvement in the movement of weapons to Syria not only will it be the death knell for Kerry’s campaign we will also have a replacement for Iraq on Bush’s list of countries that make up the axis of evil. It may be unlikely that Putin would admit to such shenanigans, but after Beslan who knows.

This story also exposes Kerry’s weakness with regard to his now famous “global test”. Kerry wants to dither with the UN and old European allies while they loot the oil-for-food program and allow time for Saddam to relocate and hide his most valuable weapons. Where would we be right now if France, Germany and Russia had supported our UN efforts? The leaders of these countries placed their personal enrichment ahead of world security. Given that, any “global test” with these players is going to be filled with trick questions and graded on a curve that makes it impossible for the US to pass.

Last, this issue puts Kerry on the side of the UN and IAEA chief and Barney Fife impersonator Mohamed ElBaradei against our own commanders and troops. Kerry ever the pandering internationalist put the word of incompetent UN bureaucrats trying to effect our election above the professionalism of our own forces. In 1995 the US asked the UN to destroy the very explosives now missing. The UN refused. Now their shorts are in a knot because the explosives are missing. If they weren’t important enough to destroy when we had the chance, why are they important now in a country awash with dangerous weapons? Simple, the NYT along with CBS, John Kerry and the UN want an issue with which to attack President Bush. Like all of their other efforts to dates, this too has backfired and damaged the man it was intended to help. By repeating the lie over Kerry makes his situation worse. Would an apology be out of the question?