[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

So a 20 acre military facility can go, apparently undetected, for 60 years in peacetime France... yet, some people are absolutely certain that there's nothing left to find in rather more trying conditions in Iraq...Excellent point!

and Iraq is just slightly smaller than France ....I think!

France is 547,030 sq km ......Iraq is 437,072 sq km ...according to the CIA Fact Book.

[Allegra]

and Iraq is just slightly smaller than France ....I think!

And Texas is bigger.

Sorry...instinctive reaction for us Texans. ;-)