Although we have no new information in the past two days, I'm glad to see that you have new rhetoric for your bandwagon against Bush. What you don't have is undeniable proof. If there are pictures of Iraqis leaving the compound with the materials in question, then you will have your proof. It would also be helpful if someone in the Pentagon was to say that the material in the video was explosives, and not someone working for the UN saying "it couldn't have been anything else."
And if there are reports that have been revised down from 400 to 360 tons of explosives being "lost", could it be possible that the reports of 250 tons of materials that were removed from the site before the war could be revised up, and that these materials were removed before our arrival?
Finally, if you are indeed correct on your speculations that the weapons were taken after we were there, to say that it's Bush's fault that the explosives went missing is not exactly correct. You have no evidence that when the troops got there, someone called up the President to ask him what to do with the explosives. It would be a foolish oversight, but to blame the President and no one else is a partisan ploy.
Another finally, if Iraq had hundreds of thousands of tons of explosives, why would terrorists want to try to steal 380 tons from a site that had been "secured" by our forces? Syria, Iran, and the people of Saudi Arabia would likely have explosives for terrorist acts that would be much safer to obtain. On the other hand, if they were removed before the war, it would be the cheapiest and easiest method for obtaining explosives.
And to revise what we actually know, there were thousands of containers in the facility, and thousands of containers of explosives were removed. What was in the containers in the video has not been proven, except for the one box that was opened, which contained neither HMX nor RDX.
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