"BUFDRVR" wrote in message
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Somehow I don't think that securing a few dozen sites would require an
additional 350,000 troops.

A few dozen? No sir, you are asking them to seal off well over 100. You
can't
use your 20/20 hindsight to determine what suspected sites actually had
material in them and which ones didn't.

I could excuse failing to seal off a site that we knew nothing about.
Failing to secure sites that the we knew contained nuclear material from
IAEA reports in inexcusable. Check out
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...nguage=printer,
for example:
"Before the war began last month, the vast Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center
held 3,896 pounds of partially enriched uranium, more than 94 tons of
natural uranium and smaller quantities of cesium, cobalt and strontium,
according to reports compiled through the 1990s by inspectors from the
International Atomic Energy Agency."

"Defense officials acknowledge that the U.S. government has no idea whether
any of Tuwaitha's potentially deadly contents have been stolen, because it
has not dispatched investigators to appraise the site. What it does know,
according to officials at the Pentagon and U.S. Central Command, is that the
sprawling campus, 11 miles south of Baghdad, lay unguarded for days and that
looters made their way inside. "

Failure to do so was a matter of incompetent
leadership, not lack of resources.
Gen. Franks is not incompetent.

He isn't the subject of this thread.