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To: KyrosL who wrote (153359)	12/5/2004 1:12:34 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Suffice it to say that the insurgents have not been hindered so far by the lack of any type of explosives, as far as anyone can tell. Saddam stocked explosives in great amounts all over Iraq. Nor was it ever conclusively shown that the good stuff was actually there on the day the Americans first arrived, and hadn't been removed for later access by members of Saddam's government. What we got was a ton of cross-speculation. At any rate, the particular location of such a tiny fraction of the explosives (and no, I do not think they are counting armor in the million ton estimates, I think that's just ordnance) was remotely worth the play that it got, had it been regarded as a mere news story, instead of a political weapon.