From: "Robert G Lewis" 

How much of the munitions destroyed were of the same grade as this ? And
under seal , and known to the US ?  How many were just plain old everyday
military.

Somehow after all this time I would hope that they might have thought about
40  truckloads of very high explosives and the surrounding equipment.

As far as using percentages consider that we went to war in Afghanistan
over 4 airline fights out of hundreds of thousands and 3000 people out of
over two hundred million . Surely you wouldn't say those percentages were
so low that we shouldn't have.

This is a royal screw-up.

Bob Lewis

"Mark"  wrote in message
news:417dd32b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Here's a map Bob, it shows 3670 locations of explosives, that may or not
> be there, your mission is to take over a country in 3 weeks and secure all
> 3670 locations simultaneously and immediately (but only after you secure a
> previously looted museum with nothing in it).
>
> Further, you must know that the contents of the locations may have been
> moved 1-5 miles away from the original location in any direction over 360
> degrees and you must know to which of those 360 choices they were moved
> and how far - immediately, regardless of whether the enemy is still
> fighting.
>
> If you fail to locate even 1 out of 3670 stashes (or break one leftover
> artifact in that previously looted museum), you must then resign from the
> Presidency at the behest of the NYTs and TPM, and do a mime routine at
> Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco to atone to the flower children. 
>
> Bush will win this election handily (and thanks to the last push of the
> Gore believers, and lawyers, at that).
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:417dcee3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> We've found and destroyed 100's of thousands of tons of explosives, but,
>>> supposedly, 380 tons got missed - that translates to like a 1/10th of 1%
>>> failure rate. But boy does "380 tons" sound like a
big cluster-fuck (no
>>> not even that, it is suddenly Bush's fault, Bush should be pouring over
>>> maps of ammo dumps in Iraq each night and calling the local commanders
>>> on a cell phone each morning - better get that one Sergeant - right?
>>
>> 380 tons of stuff that's a lot more explosive than mere munitions, 380
>> tons of stuff where we knew where it was, 380 tons left for the looters,
>> 380 tons of stuff that can blow up far more than a busy market or a
>> single building. Incompetence at the very least...
>>
>>>it is suddenly Bush's fault, Bush should be pouring over maps of ammo
>>>dumps in Iraq each night and calling the local commanders on a cell phone
>>>each morning - better get that one Sergeant - right?
>>
>> Bush is the CIC, the buck stops there -- that's the way responsibility
>> goes. If nobody loses their jobs at the very least, then the command
>> structure doesn't give a shit whether our country looks like a bunch of
>> fools or not, and yes, that is Bush's fault.
>>
>> - Bob Comer
>>
>>
>> "Mark"  wrote in message
news:417dcd07{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> John, My point was all this conjecture and micro-examining every single
>>> little aspect of this war is an exercise in futility and ill-advised at
>>> that.
>>>
>>> We've found and destroyed 100's of thousands of tons of explosives, but,
>>> supposedly, 380 tons got missed - that translates to like a 1/10th of 1%
>>> failure rate. But boy does "380 tons" sound like a
big cluster-fuck (no
>>> not even that, it is suddenly Bush's fault, Bush should be pouring over
>>> maps of ammo dumps in Iraq each night and calling the local commanders
>>> on a cell phone each morning - better get that one Sergeant - right?
>>> Gimmee a friggin break) on TPM and in the NYTs, in the final week before
>>> the election.
>>>
>>> It's all just a bunch of BS noise in the press that is bereft of any
>>> real friggin reporters.
>>>
>>> "John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>>> news:eqhrn0d0qae40bsi7dldcqnpp0f4mg4rqe{at}4ax.com...
>>>> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:08:23 -0400, "Mark"
 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>"John Cuccia" 
wrote in message
>>>>>news:ivdrn0pa9kjis2gmagl9ob80h7ch10hj1b{at}4ax.com...
>>>>>> Not according to this story:
>>>>>
>>>>>Exactly. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> It seems that the NBC report is at odds with statements the White
>>>> House made today.  The whole thing reeks of incompetence, a coverup,
>>>> and frantic CYA action.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/10/20041025-1.html
>>>> MR. McCLELLAN: Maybe the best way to do this is kind of walk you
>>>> through how we came to be informed about this. The Iraqi Interim
>>>> Government informed -- told the IAEA -- the International Atomic
>>>> Energy Agency on October 10th that there were approximately 350 tons
>>>> of high explosives missing from Al Qaqaa in Iraq. And they informed
>>>> the IAEA because these munitions were subject to IAEA monitoring,
>>>> because they were considered dual-use materials. And the
International
>>>> Atomic Energy Agency informed the United States mission in Vienna on
>>>> October 15th about these -- this cache of explosives that
was missing
>>>> because of some looting that went on in Iraq toward the end of
>>>> Operation Iraqi Freedom, or during and toward the end of Operation
>>>> Iraqi Freedom.
>>>>
>>>> Q When did the President find out?
>>>>
>>>> MR. McCLELLAN: That's why I said, we were informed on October 15th.
>>>> Condi Rice was informed days after that. This is all in the last,
>>>> what, 10 days now
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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