Incompetence

According to yahoo and Reuters:
Hundreds of Tons of Explosives Missing in Iraq
377 odd tones of high explosive were lost on Bush's watch.
Apparently the UN IAEA knew about the stash as they monitored the site. So everyone knew about this pile of explosives. Further, the site is one of the known sites where Saddam was working on nuclear weapons; so you know Bush and company were going to visit it real fast to lock down the whole WMD excuse.

But they forgot to either secure or destroy the explosives.

Now, there are times in the course of a battle where you make a decision with limited information and sometimes you get it wrong. Part of the job. Wise soldiers look at their decisions and learn from them.

This is not one of those situations. We knew what was there. We knew where it was. We did nothing.

This is just more blow-back from Bush and Rumfield's insistence that they could conquer a country on the cheap. Stupid. There is a big difference in the number of troops needed to destroy an army and the number needed to conquer a country. But Bush fell for the NeoCon fantasies of being greeted as liberators ('with flower petals'). Why would anyone who had been crushed under ten years of economic sanctions think we were their friends? Stupid.

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