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If your head hurts as much as mine over NYTroGate (aka BombGate), you're not alone.

If CBS and The New York Times cannot perform the most basic research from their own archives, how can anyone conclude anything other than, as Rush put it today, "Journalistic Malpractice"?

These aren't clowns, these are partisans draping themselves in the protection afforded by the First Amendment to simply, well, lie.

Captain Ed is all over this, and here is his conclusion:

The idea that various Army units showed up at the weapons facility and strolled around a few minutes before moving up the road to Baghdad, leaving the lights on and the front door unlocked, looks more and more ridiculous. The Army knew very well what it had found, and it searched the bunkers carefully looking for the most dangerous and high-priority items.

Shame on CBS for not even checking its own archives in order to research their hit piece on Bush. Shame also on the NY Times for not reviewing the embeds for the units in the area during the invasion to verify the contemporaneous reporting. Even if one wants to write a hit piece, doing the proper research should be a basic part of the job.

Here is a sampling from the contemporaneous CBS news report from early April, 2003:

The senior U.S. official, based in Washington and speaking on condition of anonymity, said the material was under further study. The site is enormous and U.S. troops are still investigating it for potential weapons of mass destruction, the official said.

"Initial reports are that the material is probably just explosives, but we're still going through the place," the official said. ...

The facility had been identified by the International Atomic Energy Agency as a suspected chemical, biological and nuclear weapons site. U.N. inspectors visited the plant at least nine times, including as recently as Feb. 18.

Yes, you read that right: "But we're still going through the place."

Yet John Kerry says Bush (and, let us not forget the implied indictment of our military) let 380 tons of explosives slip away.

No, Senator, our military, whom you continue to slander after 30 years, did their jobs.

It is you who is not doing your job, but rather you choose to jump like a lap dog to support the personal ambitions of a UN bureaucrat.

If the stakes were not so high, Kerry would be great entertainment.