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...."
But I think stig's (excellent) point was this:
People are now assuming that WMDs don't exist (and never existed..!?) in Iraq because we haven't found them. But the WMDs we are talking about need not be very large to cause much damage. They could be quite small. They could be the size of explosives, RPGs, ammo for example.
So logically speaking, if "we haven't found these WMDs" means they aren't there, then "we haven't found explosives/RPGS/ammo/etc" ALSO means THOSE things aren't there.
Yet somehow the insurgents seem to use them on our troops some 23X per day....