350 Tons of High Explosives Looted – Thanks Rumsfeld

Anyone remember this story from two weeks ago? It describes a great mystery – no one understands where Iraq’s known nuclear equipment went after the US invaded – the IAEA reported entire buildings were missing.

Well, guess what: The contents were looted too: 350 tons of high-tech high explosives – 700,000 pounds- disappeared in the process, the “primary source” of the IEDs and car bombs exploding every day now in Iraq. Enough to keep killing American soldiers for decades.

One administration official told Nelson, “This is the stuff the bad guys have been using to kill our troops, so you can’t ignore the political implications of this, and you would be correct to suspect that politics, or the fear of politics, played a major role in delaying the release of this information.”

In response to questions about whether the material might have been smuggled out of Iraq, another source told Nelson, “It’s still in Iraq, and this is the most likely primary source of the explosives which have been used to blow up Humvees and in all the deadly car bomb attacks since the Occupation began.”

“…free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.” -Donald Rumsfeld, Press conference April 11, 2003

http://www.dod.gov/transcripts/2003/tr20030411-secdef0090.html