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Originally Posted by daswig
Nope, what I'm saying is that it would have been a practical impossibility (and a wasted effort) to place all of the stuff there under armed guard.
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Why invade then? If you can't do the
JOB then stay the hell home. This particular, very large, stash of explosives was deemed so important the IAEA was constantly monitoring it. You'd think that would qualify it for immediate attention.
But no, the immediate attention was given to the oil fields.
Like I posted on page one, from the official WH website.
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Q But after Iraqi Freedom, there were those caches all around, wasn't the multinational force -- who was responsible for keeping track --
MR. McCLELLAN: At the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom there were a number of priorities. It was a priority to make sure that the oil fields were secure, so that there wasn't massive destruction of the oil fields, which we thought would occur. It was a priority to get the reconstruction office up and running. It was a priority to secure the various ministries, so that we could get those ministries working on their priorities, whether it was -
Q So it was the multinational force's responsibility --
MR. McCLELLAN: There were a number of -- well, the coalition forces, there were a number of priorities at the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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MAYBE if we had put the priority on securing all the weapons rather then securing oil fields those explosives would be still in our possession.