10/27/2004

The missing explosives and tractor trailers: Blah blah blah....Have you considered the type of truck capable of hauling ten tons? A huge tractor trailer is what we are talking about. The NYT would have us believe that a defeated country with no vehicles capable of long hauls could have a fleet of 38 tractor trailers cruising down the highway right under the nose of our military. No matter how old or new these vehicles were there was very little gasoline available, almost no diesel fuel, and no drivers skilled enough to drive 38 tractor trailers loaded with explosives without at least one of them exploding due to accident. This "story" is ridiculous on its face.

Another type of truck that could be used is a dump truck. The difficulty of loading a dump truck whould require a lot of labor and I don't know how many cubic feet of space is used per ton of the explosives in question.

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