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"BUFDRVR" wrote in message
... 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. |
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