>It's interesting how people will quote sources and never actually read them. I think it's apropos when those same sources can be used to discredit their key arguments.

Jay,
Lesson #1 in any report... LEAVE YOURSELF AN OUT. read any auditors' report and you will find that it is couched in all manner of wishy-washy words that effectively say 'It looks good, but we can never be sure'.

cheers


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>>Yeah, I read it and noted that they had only searched a fraction of a fraction of the weapons repositories.
>>from page 40 of volume 3:
>>
>>"Investigating Captured Enemy Ammunition Points
>>(CEA Consolidation Points)
>>ISG capitalized on efforts by Coalition Forces in
>>December 2003 to begin a program to consolidate
>>captured Iraqi weapons into seven pre-identifi ed
>>Captured Enemy Ammunition (CEA) Depots (see
>>Figure 7). As of mid-September 2004, Coalition
>>Forces have reviewed and cleared a total of 10,033
>>weapons caches dispersed throughout the country,
>>destroying a total of 243,045 tons of munitions. This
>>represents only part of Iraq’s pre-OIF munitions
>>inventory, and only a fraction of these were checked
>>by ISG technical experts for signs of chemical agent
>>fi ll. (See Annex H.) "