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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
How can you not find 380 tons? How can someone steal 380 tons? Seriously, no bone to pick, but you'd have to have one big fucking convoy to transport 380 tons, wouldn't you? How would that not be noticed, especially in the first weeks after we went in. How would that not be seen as military movement? Do you guys ever even think about reality? If you can create some imagined affront from Bush, does it slow you down at all if it is impossible that it be true? RT, can you ask Oscar how much a truck can carry?
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It was a really, really big facility. And you're right about the convoy (I heard or read somewhere that it would have taken something like a 40 truck convoy about a week running 24 hours a day). It would have been noticed leaving the compound before the war certainly, and during (formal) hostilities most probably. After the mission was declared accomplished, it looks like we weren't looking at the facility at all, except as a rest break on the way to Baghdad.
We know the explosives were there before the war started, and we know that the explosives are missing now, so they would have been removed sometime between then and now. Before and during the war, we were monitoring (and bombing) the facility and afterwards we ignored it. So when are the explosives most likely to have disappeared?
