If the Iraqis were not starting a massive rearming program, then why all the bulk explosive. Looks like they were going to start loading bombs or artillery shells.
When you figure less than 30 pounds of HMX explosive in a 152mm or 155mm, that tonnage sure does mean a lot of shells. We went in just in the nick of time.
If a few lbs of that stuff could blow up an airliner and Iraq had 380 tons, isn't that a weapon of mass destruction if there ever was one?
H*ll, that's way more dangerous than anthrax powder, which has a very difficult dispersal method.
I heard that the missing stuff could be made into rocket fuel.
The real question is why the UN did not insist Hussein destroy the stuff years ago.
If the Iraqi's didn't have WMD's, why did they have more than ample personal protective equipment. Why would they spent all that money for nothing? Something else to kick around.