gee, isn't march 10th like a week before we entered iraq?
too bad we spent the year prior wasting time at the UN trying to convince them that saddam was already in violations of a dozen UN resoloutions, you know the years time when the dums say we 'rushed to war'
looks like we didn't go fast enough
"looks like we didn't go fast enough"
Actually, we went when we were ready. President Bush didn't delay because of the UN.
He used the UN as the excuse to delay until Putin's crews could move it. We didn't want those type of weapons left out where the terrorists could get to them before we could.
So, the Ruskies hauled them away. Not just in a convoy, for the things that required trucks, but others were taken out on planes. They used the ambulance planes (supposed to be carrying out wounded) to ferry the cargo.
Many, many trips were made to get the most dangerous stuff.
But it would have been hard for the locals to identify what was taken out as being a WMD. They were taking out the guts of warheads, canisters, piping, locked briefcases, and pretty much resembled things being taken out by everyone else.
The Russian Government and weapons manufacturers had a written plan covering the nations that, if threatened with invasion, would need to have Russian supplied weapons components that violated UN resolutions removed. President Bush knows about this document, and had a general idea of what weapons were involved.
Nobody was loading huge SCUDS into trucks. It was only the illegal warheads that needed to be taken.
The real issue we had to deal with is the issue of the amount of regular weapons/explosives, and that was more of a problem than the WMD's. Saddam had weapons depots all over Iraq, comparable in number to the public schools in our country. And each was at least the size of a football field. He had enough weapons to arm just about everyone....on the planet.....twice.
When we first went in, we were destroying 100 tons a day of weapons, and hadn't even made a dent.
The Russians removed the Chem/Bio/Radioactive components for WMD's to protect their image.
We allowed it to protect our soldiers.