Nadine, you're actually funny. You will say anything to defend the Bush administration! -- including that it's fine that we didn't bother to secure HIV and black fever (since they aren't WMD) and fine if all sorts of ordinance to fall into the hands of looters because your breathtakingly limited little hero Dubya didn't f-ing plan for the period after his moronic Mission Accomplished moment. "Bring 'em on," was his plan. Oh yes, and gathering the flowers. Eating candy, too, I believe. Wait, I should give him credit for securing the oil ministry, at least.
You are again implying that their Centers for Disease Control is a bioweapons facility. Intellectually naughty Nadine!
I am implying not securing their Centers for Disease Control is further evidence of irresponsibility and incompetence.
The argument that we should let thousands of tons of explosives fall under terrorist control because it doesn't "matter" is an interesting and original one! Silly me, I figure that the fewer caches of potential death in any form for us in the fewest hands is better than thousands more caches distributed among that many more maniacs. Thanks for reassuring me, though. Go Dubya, keep up the good work in Iraq! It's going beautifully, so far!
In 2003 I went to tell Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz what I had seen in Baghdad in the days following Saddam Hussein's overthrow. For nearly an hour, I described the catastrophic aftermath of the invasion -- the unchecked looting of every public institution in Baghdad, the devastation of Iraq's cultural heritage, the anger of ordinary Iraqis who couldn't understand why the world's only superpower was letting this happen.
"I also described two particularly disturbing incidents -- one I had witnessed and the other I had heard about. On April 16, 2003, a mob attacked and looted the Iraqi equivalent of the Centers for Disease Control, taking live HIV and black fever virus among other potentially lethal materials. US troops were stationed across the street but did not intervene because they didn't know the building was important. |
