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Originally Posted by scout
Aw to be honest I was just tryin' to get under y'all's skin a bit.
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I don't think that's viewed as acceptable around here.
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I think both sides have stretched this both ways just about as far as it can be stretched.
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It's easy to say that when your side has been so wrong.
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There is some reports now that the military moved 250 tons of munitions out of Alqaqaa after the invasion around the first part of April.
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This is an interesting deflection.
Let's assume it is true even though it is probably false.
Are you suggesting that the U.S. knew that was happening while it was happening? I think not - otherwise these reports (read: excuses) would have come out earlier in the discussion of the issue.
But let's look at it from both perspectives:
- The U.S. Military
knew 2/3rds of the explosives had been removed before the end of the war. So, the U.S. just thought it would be ok to leave the remainder unsecured after it had already been demonstrated that other people knew about the location and had taken it? I would say Not A Chance.
- The U.S. Military
didn't know 2/3rds of the explosives had been removed before the end of the war. So, for all the U.S. knew, the explosives were still there - and they didn't secure them.
No matter how you slice it - it is incompetence.
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To be honest I don't think anyone knows for sure at this moment what exactly happened.
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No, we don't know _exactly_ what happened. But we do know many things - including the fact that thousands of containers of explosives were there after the U.S. Military arrived. And those thousands of containers of explosives are now missing.
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To blame this on Bush is for sure a tremendous stretch, just as saying this proves there was WMDs in Iraq is a stretch.
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Sorry no. Someone is at fault for failing to properly guard the thousands of containers of explosives that are now missing. That is quite clearly different from the fantastical claim that "this proves there were WMDs in Iraq".