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We have lots of capability, but that does not mean we can track every truck movement throughout a country the size of Iraq. Satellites make passes over an area, etc, and thus you get limited hours and locations. To track these trucks to their eventually destination, especially when at that time we were not certain what was in them, would have likely required our "focusing" extra intel capability/satellite imagery capacity on just those trucks, at the expense of many other areas we were watching.

Many people think we can watch everything all the time. Not true. We have great capability, but for limited durations of time and we must prioritize what we are looking at---you can not see everything at once. Sort of like looking outside with a telescope. What you see you see well...but you do not see 100% of what is out there.

If I recall right there were flights by our Air Force still taking place the U-2 caused the Russians to remove their missiles from Cuba some time back. Might it be possible that this will also be the case?