If you were following the Iraq War at all, you might remember the vast amount of looting that took place immediately following Saddam's defeat, so the fact that there was also thievery in al Qaqaa should be of no surprise to anyone. It's just a few hundred tones of high energy explosives, really nothing to get all that alarmed about.
You know , come to think of it, we shouldn't even be all that concerned if some of their nuclear facilities we're also raided either, right? Make no mistake, this unnecessary war in Iraq, sold to us as a way to defeat terrorism, has plunged us, and the world, even deeper into chaos.
As Brett Wagner, a professor at the Naval War College, put it a year ago in USA Today ...
"In the weeks before the invasion, the U.S. military repeatedly warned the White House that its war plans did not include sufficient ground forces, air and naval operations and logistical support to guarantee a successful mission. Those warnings were discounted — even mocked — by administration officials who professed to know more about war fighting than the war fighters themselves.
But the war fighters were right. Military commanders weren't given enough manpower and logistical support to secure all of the known nuclear sites, let alone all of the suspected ones.
It wasn't until seven of Iraq's main nuclear facilities were extensively looted that the true magnitude of the administration's strategic blunder came into focus."
Wars are military things, and wars are lost when commanded by politicians. Today, as this election looms nearer, it is these very politicians who have eagerly decided to place the lives of good American men and women into dancing a daily life-and-death struggle. Telling them, and the rest of us, it's their mistake for "messing it up" by allowing the vast looting to take place at all. This from an administration that is still unwilling to admit even the most basic of mistakes.
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