# Al Qaqaa: where the roadside bombs come from

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-qaqaa-where-the-roadside-bombs-come-from/271023>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 25, 2004, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-qaqaa-where-the-roadside-bombs-come-from/271023 "2004-10-25T09:43:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![pantom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/34f0e0/32.png) [@pantom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantom)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-qaqaa-where-the-roadside-bombs-come-from/271023/441 "2004-11-05T02:09:14Z")

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Well, **jshore** , this issue of the basic competence of the commander-in-chief as it relates to his principal Constitutional duty as commander-in-chief is, as we now know, quite trivial. Far more important is God, guns and gays, that he’s for the first, very much for the second, which is probably why he let the Iraqis so vigorously exercise their God-given Second Amendment rights in the looting of al Qaqaa, and against the third.  
Nothing else matters.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-qaqaa-where-the-roadside-bombs-come-from/271023/442 "2004-11-07T15:39:20Z")

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> American intelligence agencies have tripled their formal estimate of shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile systems believed to be at large worldwide, since determining that at least 4,000 of the weapons in Iraq’s prewar arsenals cannot be accounted for, government officials said Friday.

[The World’s Most Dangerous Weapons, in the Hands of the World’s Most Dangerous Men](http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/06/politics/06weapons.html?ex=1100750909&ei=1&en=53d929b500bc7dd9).

I am **not** reassured by the admin spokesman who said:

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> "there is no evidence that they have left the country.’’

This merely means that they haven’t a clue as to what happened to them.

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