[Happy2BMe]

The Al Qaqaa complex in Yousefiya, Iraq.  'We were still in a fight.'

[Happy2BMe]

Just 6 Days Until November 2nd, 2004 - DOWN TO THE WIRE!

[Josh in PA]

US Helicopters and Jets flew all over Iraq back and forth between Iraq and Kuwait..

It would take 37 big rigs to move this stuff..

THERE IS NO POSSIBLE WAY INSURGENTS WOULD SNEAK THAT STUFF OUT, AND KARL ROVE IS SITTING ON HIS HANDS!

[PreciousLiberty]

This is misleading:

But HMX is also a "dual use" substance powerful enough to ignite the fissile material in an atomic bomb and set off a nuclear chain reaction.

The fissile material does not "ignite". The explosives drive together or compress the material to the point where fission occurs. Obtaining suitable explosives to make this happen is one of the easiest steps in actually constructing a nuclear bomb.

The "dual use" nature of these explosives is a non-issue.

[Fatalis]

Duelfer also said U.N. weapons inspectors recommended in 1995 that the high explosives be destroyed because of their potential use in a nuclear weapons program.

The International Atomic Energy Agency instead ordered the explosives stored in sealed bunkers 30 miles south of the Iraqi capital. The last time the IAEA verified that the bunkers were still sealed was in March of last year, about a month before the first U.S. troops moved into the complex as they pushed toward Baghdad.

So the IAEA is responsible for the explosives not being destroyed in the first place.

Yah, then sanctions were working. The UN had everything under control. You betcha.

[McGavin999]

This is getting funnier and funnier. If this stuff was so important that we should have "guarded" it, then why did the UN inspectors leave it in place and not destroy it?

[15speedfan8]

I am new and do not know how to post links but on Powerlineblog they have a CBS report from April 3, 2003 saying the Army DID search pretty thoroughly. Also, on Kerryspot there are emails from soldiers who were there who said they searched and did not find the explosives, and they knew ahead of time what to look for.

[shhrubbery!]

Charles Duelfer, the head of that unit, told CBS News Tuesday that he has not received any orders to go looking for the missing explosives and doesn't think he should.

"It's hard for me to get that worked up about it," said Duelfer, in a phone interview from Baghdad, noting that Iraq is awash in hundreds of thousands of tons of explosives.

LOL. Are the lame brains in the mainstream media 'smart' enough to 'get' Duelfer's meaning?

[BlueNgold]

How to win arguments on this matter with a liberal:

I'm sorry, I missed something, who sealed this stuff?
Oh - the IAEA - and who are they again?
The International Atomic Energy Association?
Hey, weren't they the ones doing inspections?
So WMD programs DID exist! (Stand back as the head may explode.)

- If they are able to continue -
Yes of course they are missing, along with the REST of the WMD program components that Saddam hid.
Oh, it's Bush's fault.
Are you actually trying to say the the 101st Airborne and 3rd I.D. are so incompetent as to not only miss this stuff amidst everything else they found when they got there, or that they and the entire Navy/Air Force recon teams couldn't see 38 semi-trucks? Or was it 150 duece-n-a-halfs? Or did they use 760 toyota pickup trucks?

Aren't you guys sick of all that 1971 kick the military stuff yet?