385 Tons of Explosives Missing!

[UncleVinny]

Looks like 385 tons of military grade explosives are missing from a storage site in Iraq. The Bush admin fears the military grade weapons have fallen into the hands of the insurgents.

Troops that were guarding the weapons site were pulled to help fight battles in Baghdad.

The explosives are high quality, military grade munitions, which are much more powerful than the simple explosive devices the insurgents have been using up until now. This theft of munitions poses a major threat to US forces.

This is yet another error in a long string of incredibly stupid moves made by Bush.
Do you really want to send your sons and brothers into this war??

[TNRighty]

Where have you been Vinny? This story was first reported in April 03. It's just been repackaged and recycled as an October surprise. We've known for almost two years that those weapons were missing. Shortly after the initial invasion American forces were sent to recover the weapons and found that they had been moved. By the way, I thought Iraq never had any WMD???

www.drudgereport.com/nbcw6.htm

[UncleVinny]

Looks like the waters ARE murky, as now the Pentagon claims the weapons may have been missing before the troops arrived.

Another twist is that had the planning been intelligent, they would have sent in the correct number of troops to prevent this kind of thing from happening.

Before the war, the Pentagon's top generals (Tommy Franks and General Shinseki) estimated that we would need "several hundred thousand" troops to invade and occupy Iraq. General Shinseki estimated we would need 480,000 to do the job right. A fellow named Newt Gingrich introduced an Iraq (Lt. Colonel?) to Rumsfeld - this Colonel suggested he could do the job with only about 50,000 commando style troops. That is, invade Baghdad and topple Saddam. Tommy Franks and Shineki protested. Tommy Franks eventually convinced Rumsfeld to go in with 140,000 troops.

Tommy Franks allowed his arm to be twisted, despite his better judgement (based on years of military experience about these matters). General Shinseki was fired.
Meanwhile, forget about the aftermath - they expected democracy would just spread out and blossom!

So now, the Pentagon has instituted a "Stop Loss" program to keep even the 140,000 troops in Iraq, many of them National Guardsmen, who SHOULD be in places like Florida to clean up storm damage.

So
- Major chaos in Iraq.
- Best estimates proven valid: 480,000 troops (over 3X increase)
- Declining recruitment
- Major offences being planned for Falluja and other areas

AND DO YOU STILL THINK THERE WON'T BE A DRAFT?