Iraqi explosives story

So CBS had planned to run the story about 380 tons of explosives missing in Iraq (out of 600,000 total) this weekend in order to sink the Bush re-elect effort, but the NY Times beat them to the punch. Unfortunately, NBC News has busted them:

An NBC News crew that accompanied U.S. soldiers who seized the Al-Qaqaa base three weeks into the war in Iraq reported that troops discovered significant stockpiles of bombs, but no sign of the missing HMX and RDX explosives.

Reporter Lai Ling Jew, who was embedded with the Army?s 101st Airborne, Second Brigade, said Tuesday on MSNBC TV that the news team stayed at the Al-Qaqaa base for about 24 hours.

?No move to secure the weapons?
?There wasn?t a search,? she said. ?The mission that the brigade had was to get to Baghdad. That was more of a pit stop there for us. And, you know, the searching, I mean certainly some of the soldiers headed off on their own, looked through the bunkers just to look at the vast amount of ordnance lying around.

The fact that this story comes from a UN official desperate to shut down the Oil-for-Palaces scam is very disturbing, but not so disturbing that the Soros Brigade of Marshall, Brock, and Black didn’t run with it.