Or maybe a train.
Posted on 10/26/2004 6:28:23 PM PDT by BobKrumm
As a former armor officer I’ve had the opportunity to supervise the loading of large amounts of ammunition and explosives on and off trucks. But never have I tried to move 380 tons, or three-quarters of a million pounds, of ammunition from one location to another. So I did a little math to see what it would take for a highly-organized and well-trained unit to move the quantity of explosives that was allegedly moved out of the Iraqi ammo depot 18 months ago.
It requires 30,400 armloads, at 25 pounds per armload, to move this amount of explosives. If you assume that one trip to the truck and back takes one minute (I timed myself from my living room to the end of my driveway and back at 59.6 seconds), then one man could load 1,000 pounds into a pickup truck every 40 minutes. That one man, assuming he worked 24 and 7 could load those trucks in slightly over 21 days.
Oh, shoot, you guys are getting way too carried away with all the picky details of how hard it would be to move the stuff. You're supposed to simply swallow what the NYT puts out, aren't you??? In the old days no one questioned them.....
10 Semis. Maybe fewer. A couple of hours to load each one using forklifts (carry in, carry out) and relatively unlimited slave labor. Drive to Syria, shoot the slaves for the sake of tidiness.
Assuming they ever existed.
I know---every time I see a 75- or 76- I feel the same way.
Wish some of the undecideds felt the same we did....
The readers of the NYTs of old bought everything Walter Duranty had to say, why not now, just different author.
My BAD
I forgot to tell you that the fully loaded B747-400 DID NOT have Michael Mooooooore in it.
I apologise for the error!
That's a great site. Much better info.
Try moving that!
Saw one towed by a pickup on TV. So?
So?
Because usually 380 tons ain't mounted on wheels---and being dragged through the sand, that's why......
"Saw one towed by a pickup on TV. So?"
Using your numbers, we should have attacked Iraq at least one to two months EARLIER to secure these Weapons of Semi Mass Destruction.
I SEE THE LOGIC NOW!!!
At that time Kerry was still FOR the war in Iraq, before he voted against it! He must have used Edwards vaunted psychic channeling powers to know that we needed to be there then, but not later.
Well... I suppose I'm content with our killing naughty people in Iraq's sand.
I know you mean well. I can accept that.
"Because usually 380 tons ain't mounted on wheels---and being dragged through the sand, that's why...... "
You claiming that Iraq hadn't yet discovered the wheel? Or what? Do you have some inside knowledge that the Iraqis were somehow against using wheels to move this stuff?
Oh, BTW "Saw one towed by a pickup on TV. So?" was a joke. Lighten up, Frances. That stick does NOT belong there.
Or maybe a train.
I think officially Superman can bench 100 tons, so he might need Hulk and Thor to lend a hand for that much :)
I don't think the UN can possibly load a bunch of trucks for any reason. Saddam knows what happened. Let's wait for his trial!
I don't believe Sadaam is going to own up to anything, except that he is President of Iraq, and he wants his crown back..lol
Well, that's an efficient way to move a bunch of HE. One fuse and detonator, please...
A Klingon Bird of Prey, properly modified, can beam up 400 tons in a matter of seconds.
That might be another point. How many people were scamming him and the Oil-for-Food pgm. at the same time? All those hundreds of millions of US Dols that were found there may be the tip of the iceberg here. And where did those WMD's in Jordan come from?
I believe they were Sadaam's too, he may have scattered them over several countries.
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