Who Took the Missing Munitions - We Did

The Pentagon held a news briefing this morning which featured Army Major Austin Pearson who told the assembled newsies that he and his crew removed 250 tons of ammo and explosives from the now famous Al-Quaqaa dump. The removed material was later destroyed. Fox News has the story on the news briefing.

This has the potential to be a real problem for Kerry. All week he's been accusing the President (and in effect the military) of incompetence, and now the military has struck back and proven the NY Times story to be basically bogus. Instead of not having a plan to safeguard these stockpiles (as accused by Kerry), our military performed spectacularly and have to date destroyed 400,000 tons of very bad stuff (remember, this whole story was about 377 tons, or less than 1/1000th of the total we've destroyed so far).

This story was clearly an "October surprise" attempt by the UN, CBS and the NY Times, and it looks like Kerry will be the one with the surprised look on his face Tuesday night.