MORE CUT & PASTE!!!!!
Come up with an ORIGINAL thought, fukin Kerry zombie...

Osama sits there and laughs at how Bush has screwed
himeslf and created a new army of future terrorists.
And YOU LOVE it!

Hits us again, Osama!
Now that you have 380 tons of RDX and HMX.

Yes, Bush allowed Osama to escape.
And created a new generation on intrnational terrorists.
WHAT A GREAT PLAN!
Lets see what a great leader AWOL is.
*************

Courtesy of Jerry Kuhaida / The Oregonian via AP

377 tons small part of absent Iraq explosives
Missing prewar stockpiles may total 250,000 tons

Mortar rounds and other munitions litter the ground
at the Ukhaider Ammunition and Missile Storage area
near Karbala, Iraq, in an Oct. 10 photo taken by
civilian aid worker Jerry Kudaiha.

The Associated Press

Updated: 2:56 p.m. ET Oct. 31, 2004

VIENNA, Austria - From the deserts of the south and west
to the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq is awash in weapons
sites some large, others small; some guarded, others
not. Even after the U.S. military secured some 400,000
tons of munitions, as many as 250,000 tons remain
unaccounted for.

Attention has focused on the al-Qaqaa site south
of Baghdad, where 377 tons of explosives are
believed to have gone missing becoming a heated
issue in the final days of the U.S. presidential
campaign.

But with the names of other sites popping up
everywhere al-Mahaweel, Baqouba, Ukhaider,
Qaim, experts say the al-Qaqaa stash is only
a tiny fraction of what's buried in the sands
of Iraq.

There is something truly absurd about focusing
on 377 tons, said Anthony Cordesman, a defense
analyst and Iraq expert with the Washington-based
Center for Strategic and International Studies.
He contends Iraq's prewar stockpiles were
probably in excess of 650,000 tons.
Underscoring the depth of Iraq's militarization
before the March 2003 invasion, the Pentagon says
U.S.-led forces have destroyed 240,000 tons of
munitions and have secured another 160,000 tons
that is awaiting destruction.

A nation awash in weapons
Through mid-September, coalition forces inspected
and cleared more than 10,000 caches of weapons,
U.S. arms hunter Charles Duelfer said in a recent
report. But up to 250,000 tons remain unaccounted
for, according to military estimates, much of it
in small stashes scattered around the country.
I caution that there is a lot that we probably don't
know about, because this was a country, as the
inspectors acknowledged, that was awash in weapons,
Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita said Friday
in Washington.

The 377 tons that Iraq says vanished from Al-Qaqaa
sometime after the April 9, 2003 fall of Baghdad
represents just one 1,000th of the material that
we are aware of, Di Rita said.
The Bush administration has touted the thousands of
tons of explosives it did find after the March 2003
invasion as a sign of success, and officials argue
that U.S. forces pushing to Baghdad to topple Saddam
Hussein could not stop to secure every cache.
Critics, however, say war planners should have
committed more troops to the task of securing sites
or let U.N. inspectors back to help.

In insurgents hands
The debate is sharpened by the possibility that
whatever munitions unsecured may since have fallen
into the hands of Iraqi insurgents leading a bloody
campaign of bombings and attacks on U.S. forces
since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Among the sites that don't appear to have been
secured was a cache of hundreds of surface-to-surface
warheads at the 2nd Military College in Baqouba,
35 miles northeast of Baghdad. Each warhead
is believed to have contained 57 pounds of high
explosives.

Peter Bouckaert, who heads the emergency team
for New York-based Human Rights Watch, told The
Associated Press he was shown a room stacked
to the roof with the warheads on May 9, 2003.
He said he gave U.S. officials in Baghdad the
exact GPS coordinates for the site, but that
it was still not secured when he left the
area 10 days later.

Looting was taking place by a lot of armed men
with Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenades,
Bouckaert said Saturday in a telephone interview
from South Africa.
Everyone's focused on Al-Qaqaa, when what was
at the military college could keep a guerrilla
group in business for a long time creating the
kinds of bombs that are being used in suicide
attacks every day, he said.

What about Ukhaider?
Another prominent site is an ammunition storage
area at Ukhaider, 75 miles south of Baghdad,
where U.N. inspectors found 11 empty chemical
warheads in excellent condition in January 2003.
Two U.S. aid workers reported looting at Ukhaider
in October 2003, but were told the U.S. military
didn?t have enough troops to seal the site, The
Oregonian reported Friday.

David Albright, a former U.N. inspector, said the
sheer volume of weapons stored across Iraq should
have prompted the United States to invite inspectors
back to check on key sites such as Al-Qaqaa.
Instead, he told the AP, there was a lot of arrogance
on the part of U.S. officials who rebuffed the
International Atomic Energy Agency's repeated requests
to resume general inspections.
IAEA inspectors pulled out of Iraq on March 16,
2003, a few days before the invasion. They since
have been allowed to return only twice, both times
to check on the Tuwaitha nuclear complex, the U.N.
agency?s main concern in Iraq. They have not been
back to Al-Qaqaa.

Focus on HMX
The IAEA, which informed the U.N. Security Council
about the missing explosives last week, says Al-Qaqaa
is important because it was the main storage site
for HMX, which can be used in plastic explosives
but also in ignitors for a nuclear weapon.
Al-Qaqaa also contained large stores of RDX and PETN,
but the U.N. nuclear agency's main concern was the
HMX. Although the IAEA said Saddam's nuclear program
was in disarray before the war and there was no
evidence that Iraq had revived efforts to build
atomic weaponry, the agency placed the material
under seal as a precaution.
It remains unclear whether U.S.-led forces attempted
to secure the vast site, which the Iraqis say was
looted due to a lack of security after Saddam's
fall. The White House contends the material may
have been removed before American troops arrived
in the area.
Army Maj. Austin Pearson said his team removed
250 tons of munitions, including plastic explosives,
from Al-Qaqaa on April 13, 2003. But those munitions
were not under IAEA seal as the missing high-grade
explosives were, and the Pentagon was unable to say
definitively that they were part of the missing 377
tons.

Cordesman thinks the Pentagon is taking a bad rap on
Al- Qaqaa. U.S. forces main task at the time, he
contends, was to advance swiftly on Baghdad.
There was little military point in securing this
particular site during a period the U.S. was rushing
forward with limited forward-deployed strength
to seize Baghdad before Saddam's forces had any
chance to regroup, he said.

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Ray Fischer wrote:

Gyude Bryant <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

This is the terriorist *****, John Kerry wants to withdraw troops

from

ASAP.

Get this. After the Osama tape surfaced, Cheney said he was happy
as it reminded people of terrorism!
Yes, it remindeds me,

About time you stupid shallow Democrat,
Kerry would have done NOTHING he would have aske the FRENCH, OH BABY WHAT
SHOULD I DO????????????????