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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (62719)	10/25/2004 9:21:55 PM
From: mistermj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

You are taking this out of context. It only represented .02% of what we had to worry about. You support endless years of ineffective sanctions that allowed this crap to be there...and then you turn around and whine when we clean it up. There was no way we were ever going to get it all. This is a non-story being played out for "cheap shot" political hay, one week before the election. Typical N.Y. Times crap...the timing says it all. Trying to unfairly influence the election with non issues. >>So let's keep in mind that when we're talking about 380 tons of ammunition, it represents 0.019% of the estimated amount of explosives and munitions that confronted the US at the beginning of the invasion. As Mike makes clear, it will take years to find, secure, and destroy all of these caches, and the Coalition had to prioritize the sites very quickly on their arrival. Absent any IAEA seals, they did what common sense dictated: the US moved its troops into positions where they could fight the enemy and secure communications. Most egregiously, the failure to protect less than 0.02% of the total estimated munitions in Iraq has been seized upon by Kerry's campaign as an example of "incompetence": Reacting to the IAEA announcement on Monday, Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry said the "incredible incompetence of this president and this administration has put our troops at risk and put this country at greater risk than we ought to be." These hysterical ravings from the Democrats should convince voters that anyone this panicky cannot possibly be trusted with any kind of command authority over our military, let alone guide us in an asymmetrical war with Islamic terrorists and the countries that sponsor them. << captainsquartersblog.com