The rocket launchers don't appear to be there either,at least we can't seem to find them. The terrorists seem to have no problem shooting rockets, I wonder how they do it? They also seem to have plenty of explosive materials that we just can't seem to find. It obviously isn't that easy to find small caches of weapons in a country the size of Iraq. We can't even find the source of Anthrax in our own country.
The real problem I have is the democrats will play up this alleged intellegence failure as President Bush lied. They are trying to affect public opinion against the war in Iraq. This is treasonous to me. I'm not sure why the rest of the American population doen't see this
Nah, they find small caches of rocket launchers, RPG's, ammo, etc. every day, but they weren't on the banned list. I believe our guys have found some rockets that had a range ( 200km plus?)beyond what was allowed, with conventional warheads on them. See FR post below:
BTW, I agree with you about the Dem political spin. This intel failure went back to the Klintoon era. Which is probably why we had an intel failure in the first place...
Weapons Cache Found
"Additionally, they located and confiscated two complete 60-millimeter mortar systems, 11 mortar tripods, 11 mortar base plates, seven 82-millimeter mortar tubes, 170 mortar rounds, 11 rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launchers, six RPG sights, four mortar sights, one pair of binoculars, one night sight, six orange smoke grenades, 11 hand- grenades, 17 sticks of dynamite, six sticks of C4, eight blasting caps, 110 boxes of 7.62-millimeter ammunition, 10 AK-47 assault rifle magazines, eight hand-grenade charges, 68 M6 mortar fuses, two 120-millimeter mortar charges, one box of charges, one bag of artillery propellant, one bag of 82-millimeter mortar charges, eight RPG charges, one 155-millimeter artillery round, three 57-millimeter rockets, three 82-millimeter rockets, one AK-47 assault rifle, one telephone, several pictures of Saddam Hussein, and anti-Coalition pamphlets...."