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Originally Posted by Undertoad
But all that says is that the statement "once the doors were opened they weren't secured" is meaningless. If they could get in with a bolt cutter, they weren't secured BEFORE the US got there.
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That's not the point.
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Except by the rule of Hussein, which left a vacuum after he was disposed that was not filled by enough authority.
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That's the point.
The basic problem is: We knew where the stuff was. We had troops in the area, some of whom appear to have happened across it. They seem to have happened across it by accident, as they certainly don't seem to have had orders concerning it. As easy as it would have been to loot it, this ABC footage seems to say that it hadn't been looted at the time. So it could have been locked down, but it wasn't.
"once the doors were opened they weren't secured"
A bigger problem is: "Once the doors were opened, and the contents were revealed, they weren't secured."