"BUFDRVR" wrote in message
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Inexcuseable to you because you won't see reality. When U.S. forces got
within
11 miles of Baghdad, there was a lot of issues to be dealt with, not least
of
which was destroying Iraqi units that we believed had CW weapons and were
preparing to use them. If you were the 3ID commander (which is who you are
attacking here, not the President) do you detach forces to secure a
*suspected*
(despite the IAEA report, the Iraqis moved material around quite a bit and
there was just as good a chance this site had nothing in it. The IAEA
reported
"through the 1990s", what about since then?) WMD facility and leave some
of
your forces short handed for an attack on unit that is *suspected* of
having CW
weapons and is preparing to use them?

Try: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3068560/
"Some of the lapses are frightening. The well-known Al Tuwaitha Nuclear
Research Center, about 12 miles south of Baghdad, had nearly two tons of
partially enriched uranium, along with significant quantities of highly
radioactive medical and industrial isotopes, when International Atomic
Energy Agency officials made their last visit in January. By the time U.S.
troops arrived in early April, armed guards were holding off looters-but the
Americans only disarmed the guards, Al Tuwaitha department heads told
NEWSWEEK. "We told them, 'This site is out of control. You have to take care
of it'," says Munther Ibrahim, Al Tuwaitha's head of plasma physics. "The
soldiers said, 'We are a small group. We cannot take control of this site'."
As soon as the Americans left, looters broke in. The staff fled; when they
returned, the containment vaults' seals had been broken, and radioactive
material was everywhere."

"U.S. officers say the center had already been ransacked before their troops
arrived. They didn't try to stop the looting, says Colonel Madere, because
"there was no directive that said do not allow anyone in and out of this
place." Last week American troops finally went back to secure the site."

Bush has and had nothing to do with force taskings during Operation IRAQI
FREEDOM.

But he had everything to do with setting overall objectives and allocating
adequate resources. Franks was told to defeat the Iraqi army and capture
Baghdad. If Franks was never told that securing the known NBC sites was
important then it is hard to hold him responsible. If Franks was told to
secure the sites, but wasn't given adequate resources, he has more
responsibility but the ultimate responsibility is with the President.

Note that there was enough in the administration over the possibility of a
dirty bomb was high enough to arrest and declare a US citizen to be an
"enemy combatant" in the middle of 2002 for being involved in a dirty bomb
plot. What happened to this concern when it came to securing the materials
that could be used to make a dirty bomb?