How about proof of a positive instead of a negative? Is there any evidence that we DID take care of the items we did find?
To smuggle the stuff out after the US got there, they
would have had to have 30 or 40 big trucks and get them
through checkpoints which were set up on the roads.
Anyone trying to come through checkpoints with a load of
explosives would have been shot as a suicide bomber, or at
the least arrested and stuff seized.
The proof is that when our troops find caches of weapons and/or explosives, they secure them and/or destroy them. There is nothing to indicate that was not done in this case.
Inquiry Launched Over Missing Explosives in Iraq
excerpt:
However, coalition forces found no evidence of the weapons in question when they first arrived at the sprawling Al-Quaqaa facility, 30 miles south of Baghdad, about April 10, 2003, according to a defense official.
The troops searched 32 bunkers and 87 other buildings, finding some weapons and explosive material, but nothing close to the quantity reported missing by the Iraqi government, and none with IAEA seals, he said.
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Since Operation Iraqi Freedom began in March 2003, coalition forces have discovered that Saddam Hussein's regime stored weapons in countless locations, including schools, mosques and hospitals, the official said. In addition, he said, the former regime forced many Iraqi citizens to hide weapons in their homes and neighborhoods
~snip~
The report, released earlier this month, notes that since mid-September alone, coalition forces have reviewed and cleared more than 10,000 weapons caches and destroyed more than 240,000 tons of weapons and munitions. Another 162,000 tons of munitions await destruction.
~snip~
Well Troll here it is.
Col. John Peabody, engineer brigade commander of the 3rd Infantry Division filed one of many very extensive reports on everything we found at alQaQa. The 3rd ID and the 101st were the first units to arrive, the 3rd ID secured and inspected the site and brought in their Engineering Brigade to document, test and destroy, as needed. The 101st moved on to other objectives.
The site had been swept clean of any hazardous materials before the end of summer 2003 by the U.S. military and then promptly abandoned. Such as the 'reported' condition over a year later.
There are at least 100 stories from March 2003 to September 2003 that can be brought up on Google or Lexus-Nexus that in part or in whole refute what the Times and AP say now. It truly is a perponderance of the evidence that makes the Times story blatantly false.
What is so laughable is that many of those reports from 2003 were filed by the Time's and AP's own reporters! They're calling their own reporters liars?
The Times story is a red herring and Kamp Kerry fell for it.
A fictitious 'source' at the Pentagon that the Times claims is no match for actual film footage and live bodies, with testimonials and official reports, that did indeed secure and inspect the facility.
Game, Set, Match