Not only have we not heard the last of this, I think we have barely heard the beginning. Every time a car bomb goes off, or a Humvee carrying American soldiers gets blown away, think of George W. Bush. Be angry, be very, very angry.
Here's an earlier one:
Don't worry, Bush. Our soldiers will find the explosives. Oh, yes. They'll find them the same way they found missing or "dud" explosives in Vietnam - one piece at a time. Each time they find a little of it, one or more of them will die or be horribly maimed, just like Vietnam. Each soldier, and his family, can thank Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld for his death or lifetime as a cripple.
These explosives may turn up anywhere in the world for many years to come. We won't know where until it's too late to do anything except police up the carnage.
This could have been prevented, but Bush didn't do it. There is absolutely no excuse or reason for not securing these caches. Incompetence doesn't begin to cover it. Criminal negligence is closer to the truth.
Bush, if anything you've ever done consigns you to Hell, this is it. You motherfucker.
Me'n Fixer posted several times in blind rage that month on the theft of explosives and weapons from the cache at al QaQaa. Kindly ignore the predictions of Kerry's victory. We thought reality would trump stupidity. It almost did...
But I digress. Here's from WaPo on the GAO report just out:
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.
The GAO report pointed to several critical assumptions underlying U.S. military war plans in 2003 that proved invalid -- including expectations that Iraqi resistance was unlikely and that the Iraqi army would capitulate and continue to provide security.
As a result, widespread looting of munitions took place, including at the majority of Iraqi Republican Guard garrisons as well as 401 other sites, according to the GAO.
Pentagon programs have secured or disposed of more than 417,000 tons of munitions, the report said. But it said an unknown quantity -- ranging from thousands to millions of tons of conventional munitions -- remain unaccounted for.
Our troops are still finding them, a little bit each day, just as we predicted. The Government Accountability Office took their own sweet time to agree with us, but they finally did.
And our Soldiers and Marines and Iraqis are still dying because of Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney and his neocons' insanity, evil, and sheer incompetence. May God damn them all.
Update:
The Air Force Times weighs in as well:
But the Pentagon provided no witnesses to the hearing despite repeated requests, much to the chagrin of the chairman, Rep. John Tierney, D-Mass.
"This is troubling at a number of levels," Tierney said. "There are people tasked with having their act together to protect our troops going forward. What does this say, if they don't even have their act together to put forward a single witness to talk to us about these issues?"
Yeah, if you don't talk about it, it'll go away. Might take a while, but the insurgents can only build bombs so fast...
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