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To: TigerPaw who wrote (209251)	10/29/2004 2:03:54 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1574118

"a 500 lb areal bomb may be powerful" Plus the word 'munitions' also includes bullets. Out of the million tons, a large fraction is going to be bullets and artillery shells. Some will be bombs. I doubt seriously if much was in the form of plastic explosives, unlike what some are pretending...

To: TigerPaw who wrote (209251)	10/29/2004 2:39:59 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574118

a 500 lb areal bomb may be powerful, but it's of little use to an insurgent. He couldn't even haul it around much less put it into the flower pot at the green zone cafe. The class 1.1D explosives that they got were perhaps the most useful thing they could have looted, outside the frequency of Bush's hump. The war plan was a rumsfeld new military science experiment with the lives of our soldiers and the credibility of our country. The commander in chief is a sideline fool on all this and the results are clearly disastrous. That said, I kind of agree with those who say that this is not a useful sidebar for kerry...the evidence that bush is competely incompetent is overwhelming without this story... Al