Monday, October 25, 2004
380 Tons Of Explosives Missing In Iraq: Do You Feel Safer Yet???
In Dick Cheney's upbeat campaign missives, he likes to mention that a nuclear device detonated in a US city is the worst threat this nation faces.
Thanks to the Bush adminstration's crappy pre(and post)-war planning, that prospect has gotten a little more likely in the months since the invasion of Iraq.
VIENNA, Austria - Several hundred tons of conventional explosives are missing from a former Iraqi military facility that once played a key role in Saddam Hussein's efforts to build a nuclear bomb, the U.N. nuclear agency confirmed Monday.
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei will report the materials' disappearance to the U.N. Security Council later Monday, spokeswoman Melissa Fleming told The Associated Press.
"On Oct. 10, the IAEA received a declaration from the Iraqi Ministry of Science and Technology informing us that approximately 380 (metric) tons of high explosive material had gone missing," Fleming said.
"The most immediate concern here is that these explosives could have fallen into the wrong hands."
Securing these materials should have been job ONE after the invasion of Iraq. Instead, Iraq's oil fields were the first area of concern.
We the people could wind up paying the price for the Bush administration's faith-based approach to pre-war planning.
Lucky us...
UPDATE: In a hilarious turn of events, the headline just below IAEA: 380 Tons of Iraq Explosive Missing on Yahoo's front page is Bush: I'm Best Candidate to Protect U.S..
And I thought the referees in yesterday's Eagles-Browns game were blind...
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