I thought we overflew that area and did many sweeps with radiologic detection....
If it is that easy to miss these things......what other little nasties do they also have....in hiding...? or shuttled to Iran....
Not that hard to hide if that is the case. There could be many more.
"I thought we overflew that area and did many sweeps with radiologic detection"
-- I'm sort of in that line of work, and I can tell you that this overhead radiological thing is BS. While there is a capability, it is very limited and if the nuke is shielded, you'll nothin'. Most people got this crap from the movie "Broken Arrow", where terrorists hid a loose nuke in a hospital, so that radiological x-ray machines will cloak the signature.
"If it is that easy to miss these things......what other little nasties do they also have....in hiding...? or shuttled to Iran..."
-- How long do you think it would take to search every house in California, which is the same size as Iraq? On top of that, how long would it take to crack open the foundation of each home to make sure WMD isn't sealed up???
The president knew the UN inspectors would NEVER find anything in this enviornment; the bulk of WMDs were smuggled out of the country, and most of the rest are buried. If I were Saddam and wanted to hide WMDs until after the war, I think I'd bury 'em under six feet of concrete. When I want them back, I go get a jackhammer. You could dig up the floor and get out your WMDs with a crew of four in a day. It doesn't sound too hard, does it?