Cobb: 380 Tons & What Do You Get?

October 25, 2004

380 Tons & What Do You Get?

Explosives are missing in Iraq!

Kerry goes for the jugular:

"one of the great blunders of Iraq, one of the great blunders of this administration."

He added that "the incredible incompetence of this president and this administration has put our troops at risk and put this country at greater risk than we all need."

The Independent takes off after the NYT:

According to The New York Times, which broke the story in a lengthy front-page story, the missing stockpiles - some 350 tons in all - are of HMX, RMX and PETN, extremely powerful, conventional explosives that are used to blow up buildings, fill missile warheads or detonate nuclear weapons. So devastating are they that just one pound of a similar explosive was enough to destroy Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in December 1988. HMX, RMX, or explosives like them have been used in car and apartment bombings in Moscow and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in recent years.

This is horrifying, until you get perspective.

MR. McCLELLAN:

Now, if you go back and look at the Duelfer report that recently has come out, according to the Duelfer report, as of mid-September, more than 243,000 tons of munitions have been destroyed since Operation Iraqi Freedom. Coalition forces have cleared and reviewed a total of 10,033 caches of munitions; another nearly 163,000 tons of munitions have been secured and are on line to be destroyed. That puts this all -- that puts this all in context.

So let's do the math: 243kilotons already destroyed. 163kilotons accounted for and secure in line to be destroyed. 406 kilotons accounted for, 380 tons missing. Kerry's focus? .0197% of the WMDs.

Let me make that clear. That's less than 2 hundreths of one percent.

Jesus this man is shameless.

Posted by mbowen at October 25, 2004 04:30 PM

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"380 Tons & What Do You Get?"

A bigger hump in your back?

And yes he is shameless in every way. For instance his meeting with the "entire U.N. Security Council" turned out to be France, Singapore and Cameroon. Or, saying now that Poland should get more of the reconstruction money because they are our "true and tried" friends, after saying that our allies were the coalition of the bribed and coerced. It just never stops with him.
And who says true and tried?

Posted by: seal-lover at October 25, 2004 08:21 PM

NBC is now making report that this stock-pile was gone before America ever arrived in Iraq.

Posted by: Keith W. Peterson at October 25, 2004 09:12 PM

Ouch.

Posted by: memer at October 26, 2004 10:10 AM

Saw 2day that the U.S. military is now saying they removed it.

OK. This smells.

Posted by: DarkStar at October 30, 2004 01:57 PM