THAT is only because Saddam shipped all the newer materials to Syria in 2002, just before the kickoff.
One long truck convoy on sattelite imagery, headed over al-Anbar Province's best hardball road to the Syrian border.
We, of course, are entirely sure what was in those trucks.
Let alone forgetting the recent (< 6 mo) stories of finding WMDs+ buried in no-man’s land?
Tell a lie often enough
Not that I think we should have gone in there to begin (Saudi on 9/11, not Iraqi); let alone ham-stringing our guys with asinine ROE. You go in, you go in to WIN, not ‘win minds’/nation build/etc.