These aren’t the bombs we’re looking for.
GAO Faults U.S. Military Over Munitions in Iraq
The U.S. military’s faulty war plans and insufficient troops in Iraq left thousands and possibly millions of tons of conventional munitions unsecured or in the hands of insurgent groups after the 2003 invasion — allowing widespread looting of weapons and explosives used to make roadside bombs that cause the bulk of U.S. casualties, according to a government report released yesterday.
Some weapons sites remained vulnerable as recently as October 2006, according to the Government Accountability Office report, which said the unguarded sites “will likely continue to support terrorist attacks throughout the region.” For example, it said hundreds of tons of explosives at the Al Qa Qaa facility in Iraq that had been documented by the International Atomic Energy Agency were lost to theft and looting after April 9, 2003.
The WaPo neglects to mention that in Spring 2003, among our too-few troops, we did have some some (a few, not enough) guys looking for weapons. The famous WMD “exploitation team.” But when they found an Iraqi base with tons and tons of munitions spread out over acres, all they could do was satisfy themselves that it was conventional stuff, and move on.
All these errors still haunt us (and kill our troops) today.
So here’s teh plan. Blame it all on Iran. Invade them. Not find the weapons we claim they are making. Get into a quaqmire there. Blame that quagmire on interference from their neighbor - Afghanistan! .. Repeat … One “interfering neighboring” country at a time. This strategery eventually will bring us to the root of all our problems - those Maoist guerillas in Nepal.
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