So What Is the Truth About the Weapons?

[Hosnon]

I'd appreciate it if someone could lay it out nice and simple. Please no shouting about conservative lies. I need to email my dad the truth.

[Streetdoc270]

1. which ones?

Is it the WMD in general, or the new report of missing explosives?

[w13rd0]

2. If you are talking about the explosives...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x934107

[priapis]

3. The admin alibi is shot. CBS interviews commander of 1st unit on scene.

end of alibi.

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The commander of the first unit into the area told CBS he did not search it for explosives or secure it from looters. "We were still in a fight," he said. "our focus was killing bad guys." He added he would have needed four times more troops to search and secure all the ammo dumps he came across.

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revenge is sweet for CBS.

for a nice listing of all the details, go to www.talkingpointsmemo.com

[seabeyond]

4. someone has a post with timeline in it

it is very clear. step by step if you can search and find it

[Poiuyt]

6. Here it is:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1175837

[tomfodw]

5. Nice and simple

The IAEA was guarding a large site 30 miles outside of Baghdad. On the site were dozens of buildings and bunkers storing a large cache of very dangerous explosives. Right before the US invasion, the IAEA inspectors left, having sealed up the site.

During the months preceding the invasion, the US was covering Iraq with spy-flights and spy satellites.

Nevertheless, at some point, before, during or since the invasion, 380 tons of extremely dangerous explosives were looted from this site. To loot these explosives would have taken quite an effort: a lot of trucks and men.

These explosives are believed to have been used by the insurgents in the course of the many attacks in Iraq since the US invasion, including the attacks that have killed many US troops.

The apologists for Bush are claiming that the explosives could have been looted before the invasion, thus absolving Bush from not having enough troops to guard all the identified sites that were storing explosives. They're also saying that even if the US should have been guarding this site, so many other explosives were stolen that 380 additional tons would not have made any difference.

Others are saying that these are the weapons of mass destruction that Democrats have been claiming Saddam didn't have! (Even though, if that were somehow possibly true, letting them fall into the hands of insurgents and terrorists is supposedly what we went into Iraq to prevent.)

I hope that's a decent summation. Anyone else?

[alcuno]

7. They're gone.

And I heard that they would take up the space of one and a half times the Statue of Liberty. And they're still gone. One pound can bring down a 747. They've been gone for a year and a half. I wonder if we've been looking for them or just hiding the fact that they're gone?