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Originally posted by Bingo@Oct 29 2004, 12:02 PM
2. How many troops are needed to guarantee 100% weapon recovery in a country literally filled with them? I read somewhere that this deposite amounts to 0.5% of the recovered weaponry in Iraq. I hope you get cut a little more slack on your job.
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If you go purely by weight, what was stolen was small.
But again, what we're talking about are high explosives the types of which are used as a part of nuclear bombs. There is a reason that the IAEA flagged this stuff and not other conventional weapons, so to try to portray 200 tonnes of this as somehow equivalent to 200 tonnes of, say, RPG's is completely misleading.
That being said, the real problem isn't just that it went missing, but that much of it went missing after the US had their hands on it 3 times and repeatedly left it unguarded. I hope you get slapped down for such conduct on your job.