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To: lugsoul
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?

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

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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

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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~

121 posted on 10/26/2004 2:45:15 PM PDT by cyncooper (And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm)
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To: cyncooper
That's creative. First, the article is flat-out wrong about when US forces 1st arrived at the site. I'd say the interviews with US forces at the site a week earlier establish that. 2nd, the official report about "32 bunkers and 87 buildings" says that this search was conducted by May 27, rather than on or about April 10. Creative editing by the reporter here. On that, and on the entire argument presented by many here (though, to your credit, not you) that this article proves the material was missing before March 8, I fall back on an old maxim - If you have to stretch the truth that far to make your point, your point probably isn't valid.
124 posted on 10/26/2004 2:51:03 PM PDT by lugsoul (Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside.)
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