Can we take this to mean that since when she ran for and won the Senate seat, in a state she which she had never lived, that her own belief in democracy is suspect?

This goes right to the hypocrisy of the democrats in general. In the past two days we have seen the NYT publish two stories on the front page about a supposed "failure" of the adminstration to secure explosives that the IAEA was monitoring in al-QaQaa. The NYT fails to mention that the 3rd Infantry Division had visited the site to secure it, found it to be basically devoid of WMD's and moved on. A week later, it was visited again by US forces and again found to be not of much consequence to the war effort or securing the nation. The Kerry campaign is running full-tilt with this regardless of the emerging and common sense facts.

This partisan attack of the NYT, the Kerry Campaign and the left in general seems to assert that now we entered this "Wrong War, Wrong Time, Wrong Place" war too early?? Just anothe example of the insanity that the Democrats have succumbed to in their attempts to gain power for power's sake.

Al-QaQaa was bombed repeatedly in the opening days of the Bombing Campaign against the Saddam regime. Saddam had long used the extensive bunker complex at al-QaQaa for the staging and logistical support of his army, the bunker complex there was heavily bombarded by us forces destroying many bunkers completely. To this day, the site remains a "non-issue" with regard to the security of Iraq due to this bombing.

Keep in mind that IF the 380 tons of explosives did in fact fall into enemy hands, they represent less than one-tenth of one percent (that's less than .1%) of the material already captured by US forces since the invasion. Not to mention the material destroyed in the bombing campaign.

I don't know about you, but if I see a Franklin lying on the street next to the dime, I'll definately pick up the Franklin, but I may very well leave the dime lying there and never give it a second thought.

Yes I know that these explosives are dangerous, and I know they can be fashioned into various devices to kill with. However, given the speed at which we were covering ground in this battle, I can understand the reluctance of commanders to focus on each and every weapons cache when they can concentrate on getting forward with the plans to capture Baghdad and get at the people that are actively shooting at our troops.

Do I wish US forces had gotten these explosives, of course. Even if they had captured them (my contention is still that they were mostly destroyed in the bombing campaign), there were plenty of other sources of weaponry lying around.

Terrorists have never had a problem getting their hands on weaponry and explosives. I also doubt they got their hands on these.

Word is coming out today that CBS News/60Minutes had planned to sit on this story until election eve and that the NYT scooped them. Some scoop, just another example of "false but accurate" reporting.

--Jason