The story behind the story of Saddam's lost explosives.

[CrimsonNan]

What I'm seeing/hearing is Kerry - once again, as in 1971 - criticizing the American military, blaming them, putting them down, etc.

How could anyone want a man, who has no loyalty to his own country, as our president? He's spent his entire adult life degrading our military, voting against defense, plus voting to raise taxes on all of us.

What a pitiful excuse for a human being. I hope he goes down in flames Noivember 2nd., and takes his foreign wife and moves to France. I'm sure he'll be welcomed there!

And may Soros enjoy his monastery! Maybe he'll have to take an oath of silence - I hope.

 

[Mamacalled]

The truth has came out about the reporters who videotaped the bunkers. They have admitted that weren't sure where they were when they videotapped the bunkers. They said they could have been at any bunkers. Major Austin Pearson has also proven that the concern wasn't justified since they (He and his troops) are the ones who removed the ordnance.
I guess that you haters are wrong again.

 

[ed4tide4u2]

Anyone who opposes Bush is a hater? I guess that means they are Un-American also by your reasoning. By the way, the explosives that Queasy1 mentions above that were supposedly destroyed, were not the ones in question. See the link below.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/25/iraq/main651082.shtml


I don't hate GWB. I just don't think he is a good president and never will be. If that makes me a hater, it's only by your standards of what a hater is: anyone who does not follow GWB in lockstep.

 

[Queasy1]

By the way, the explosives that Queasy1 mentions above that were supposedly destroyed, were not the ones in question.

But there still isn't any definitive proof that looters made off with 380 tons of HMX and RDX either. An internal IAEA memo showed only 3 tons of RDX on site.

And don't point to that ABC video either. It is inconclusive as well. The newscrew can't even confirm they were there.

What the Major's story does confirm, however, is that the Al-Qaqaa facility was being secured. I still find it highly doubtful that in the middle of a war with U.S. Troops and Vehicle patrolling the roads and the skies that 'looters' could make off with 380 tons of explosives.

 

[ed4tide4u2]

Well Queasy1 they did make off with it. Can anyone see the car and truck bombs being loaded? They go off daily. Those explosives are being used against our troops. Here is a quote from AP in regard to the 3 tons:

"ABC News, citing IAEA inspection documents, reported Wednesday night that the Iraqis had declared 141 tons on RDX explosives at Al-Qaqaa in July 2002, but that the site held only 3 tons when it was checked in January 2003."
"The network said that could suggest 138 tons were removed from the facility long before the U.S. led invasion in March 2003."
"Melissa Fleming, a spokesperson for IAEA said most of the RDX-about 125 tons- was kept at Al-Mahaweel, a storage site under Al-Qaqaa's jurisdiction located outside the main Al-Qaqaa site. IAEA inspectors visited Al-Mahaweel on January 15, 2003, and verified the RDX inventory by weighing sampling".

'After we heard reports of looting at the Tuwaitha site in April 2003, the agency's chief Iraqi inspector alerted American officials that we were concerned about the security of the high explosives stored at Al-Qaqaa."

You can't blame the troops for the mistake like Guilliani tried to do. The buck stops at the top. This was not planned well past invading the country. None of this was was well planned. We will be stuck there for years.

 

[Queasy1]

Well Queasy1 they did make off with it. Can anyone see the car and truck bombs being loaded? They go off daily. Those explosives are being used against our troops. Here is a quote from AP in regard to the 3 tons:

And your proof that HMX and RDX is being used against our troops? HMX and RDX are only compounds used in the making of plastic explosives. They were stored in a powdered form. All of the explosives, especially the IEDs, have been from artillery shells and landmines.

Iraq was awash in explosives. It was estimated that Saddam had 600,000 to one millions tons of the stuff. We've secured and destroyed over 400,000 tons. But, I guess it was better to leave all of that in Saddam's hands as he was using the UN's Oil-For-Food program to bribe France, Russia, Germany, and China into lifting the sanctions against him so he could restart his weapons programs.

And, when did I blame the troops?