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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-03 02:51 PM
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US government auditors could not account for three tons of plutonium
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030907/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_weapons_gaps&cid=540&ncid=1473

Errors May Have Inflated Iraq Arms Claims

<snip>A U.S. audit last year, for example, found the Pentagon (news - web sites) had lost track of more than 1 million chemical-biological protective suits, said Conetta, of the Project on Defense Alternatives, a private think tank.

In perhaps the most striking example, U.S. government auditors found in 1994 that almost three tons of plutonium, enough for hundreds of nuclear bombs, had "vanished" from U.S. stocks, because of discrepancies between "book inventory" and "physical inventory."

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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-03 02:57 PM
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1. I have to admit, today has been the day where I have laughed the most
at DU.
What is what they say "People living in glass houses should not throw stones?"
What about the billion $$$ Rumsfeld cannot find in the Pentagon? Couldn't that have been used of WMD too?
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Code_Name_D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-03 02:59 PM
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2. Wana bet they are being turned into US weponds? N/T
N.T
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