Palestinian Jew said:
So far the Pentagon has only given out one picture of a truck by the compound. I seriously doubt that 300 tons of explosives could be loaded onto one truck.
LOL - you said a mouthful there!
Let's do a little math. 380 tons of explosive have allegedly "disappeared". You don't do that with smoke and mirrors.
380 x 2000 = 760,000 pounds
That's right, boys and girls. SEVEN HUNDRED SIXTY THOUSAND pounds. You don't back your Ford 350 heavy duty pickup up to that and carry it off.
Tank transporters are the among some of the vehicles which could be used to accomplish this task. They can carry something in excess of sixty tons each. To spirit off 380 tons of explosives, you would need approximately 6 of these transporters. The top speed of these vehicles when loaded varies, but 50 mph would be a close estimate. Given the condition of most roads in Iraq, probably 35 mph would be more like it.
Most trucks available to the opposition military in Iraq during the war had a capacity on the order of five tons. If those were used, they would need 76 trucks to move the explosives. After we took the munitions site, it is highly unlikely that any Iraqi military vehicles would have been unchallenged - especially 76 of them.
Assuming that the military did not move them, then the only way to get the explosives out would have been by civilian vehicles which could blend in with local traffic. So is it possible that insurgents sneaked onto the premises and loaded all that stuff onto their Toyota pickups? Your average Toyota has a load capacity of one half ton. To move 380 tons of explosives would have required 760 trucks.
I love the desperation exhibited by ACLU and his liberal friends. In their frenzy to succeed in a cheap, sleazy last minute gotcha they have become totally irrational. And they make the assumption that the rest of us are either equally irrational or incapable of performing first grade level math calculations.
