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October 29, 2004
A Minneapolis news station, embedded in Iraq in April 2003, has conclusive video evidence that explosives were left unguarded at an Al-Qaqaa bunker after the fall of Saddam's regime. As former chief weapons inspector David Kay stated yesterday on CNN, "With this one, I think it is game, set, and match. There was HMX, RDX in there. The seal was broken."
- The Bush administration was explicitly warned about Iraqi explosives before the invasion. Multiple sources, including the International Atomic Energy Agency, publicly and explicitly warned the Bush administration before the invasion that these deadly explosives must be secured.
- The administration failed to protect the 380 tons of explosives after the fall of Baghdad; now they're in the hands of our enemies. Weapons inspectors who have examined the video evidence say it matches their own photographs and evidence almost exactly. It shows that IAEA seals were still on the explosives bunker nine days after the fall of Baghdad. The bunkers were then left unguarded. And when the IAEA went back to the bunkers in May 2003, all of the explosives had been removed.
- The administration should have spent less time planning "Mission Accomplished" rallies and more time protecting our troops. The administration's failure to provide basic security after the fall of Saddam is inexcusable. Rather than taking adequate steps to secure the explosives, and protect our troops, the administration was more interested in claiming victory and planning political rallies to justify the war.
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