Missing explosives

Now let me see if I can get this straight. Dick (the Slimy) says that John Kerry is just a Monday Morning Quarterback because he is concerned about the missing explosives. The Shrub insists that Kerry is speaking without knowing the facts. So let us consider what the facts are.

No one disputes that there were 380 tons of extremely dangerous explosives at the site in question. No one disputes that those tons and tons of explosives are now missing. No one disputes that at the moment no one knows what happened to those explosives. No one disputes that it would have taken at least 38 large trucks to move the explosives in question.

The argument the Bush/Cheney people seem to want you to believe is that the explosives might have been moved before the “war.” What in the hell does it matter when they were moved? They mean before the war they weren’t actually watching and paying attention? With the weapons inspectors on the ground and constant overflights and presumably U. S. intelligence focused on Iraq, they didn’t pay any attention to a munitions dump with 380 tons of explosives? And after the “war” they were so busy protecting the Oil Ministry they couldn’t be bothered about a mere 380 tons of explosives? Doesn’t this imply at the very least that someone took their eye off the ball?

What it indicates to me is what we already know. The invasion of Iraq, the so-called “war,” was the most ill-conceived, badly planned, incompetently executed, and stupid foreign policy blunder in the history of the United States. And this ignores the fact that it was completely illegal, unconstitional, and the most universally condemned action ever perpetrated against a sovereign nation. It was a war crime, pure and simple. And in its execution further war crimes were committed: violating the Geneva Convention by illegally arresting and holding prisoners with no rights of defense, torturing prisoners, war profiteering, lying to, and deceiving the Red Cross, secretly moving prisoners from one country to another, looting national assets, and more.

What I wonder is, if John Kerry does win the election, which I believe he will, what will be done to hold these war criminals responsible for their absolutely reprehensible and illegal behavior? Surely they cannot be simply rewarded for their murderous, profitable, and unnecessary “war” by letting them just retire with their ill-gotten gains?

Now they have the audacity to request another 70 billion dollars for this pit of shame? Another 70 billion for Halliburton and its subsidiaries? Let us make it eminently clear on November 2nd that enough is too much. No to this endless “war” and the evil cabal that brought it about and wants to perpetuate it forever.