Slaughter and sloppiness

[AmerDem]

Slaughter and sloppiness

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD

The most foolhardy comment one can make about the mess in Iraq is that it can't get any worse. The weekend brought the massacre of 50 freshly minted Iraqi soldiers and news that nearly 400 tons of explosives had simply vanished from a former Iraq military installation.

These events -- one horrific, the other potentially catastrophic -- are more evidence of the Bush administration's gross miscalculations in a war that was unnecessary.

Allowing hundreds of tons of munitions to disappear from a well-known stockpile is again the result of having insufficient military forces to secure a hostile nation the size of California. One of the cited justifications for the war was the threat posed by an Iraqi nuclear weapons program. The site at issue, Al Qaqaav, was widely known to contain explosives capable of detonating nuclear weapons, yet it was not secured.

The U.S. decision to dissolve the Iraqi army, dismiss its command structure and rebuild from the ground up haunts the ambush site where the 50 unarmed, unescorted new Iraq army soldiers were slaughtered.


http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/196723_iraqmessed.html



They slammed shrub over the head with this write up!

[grannylib]

1. They should also be getting the word out about the depleted uranium we

have been dropping over there; it's not only harming the Iraqi civilians but our troops are guarding contaminated sites.