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To: Ish who wrote (149189)	10/26/2004 7:10:25 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

NBC reporter also said the 380 tons of the HMX and RDX were gone. BZZZZZZZZZT. False. No, she did not say they were "gone". The article said "troops saw no sign of the missing HMX and RDX." The reporter said “There wasn’t a search,” she said. “The mission that the brigade had was to get to Baghdad. That was more of a pit stop there for us. And, you know, the searching, I mean, certainly some of the soldiers headed off on their own, looked through the bunkers just to look at the vast amount of ordnance lying around. The pit stop lasted only 24 hours. The facility has over 1,000 buildings. In other words "saw no sign" simply means they "did no search". There simply is no way "some of the soldiers heading off on their own" thoroughly searched 1,000 buildings during their 24 hour pit stop on the way to Baghdad, which was their primary mission.

To: Ish who wrote (149189)	10/26/2004 7:13:31 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Missing explosives: Nearly 380 tons of conventional high explosives have disappeared from an Iraqi weapons facility near Baghdad. Time to state the obvious: + Before US orders weapons inspectors and UN out of Iraq, explosives "safe" and location known. - Who knows when exactly the high explosives disappeared; exactly when is irrelevant in the big picture. All that is known for sure is that they disappeared after weapons inspectors - UNMOVIC and IAEA - were ordered out of Iraq by the US, since Bush wanted to start the war right away to make everyone "safer". = CONCLUSION: Weapons inspection and containment were working.