May 7, 2003

Priorities
"According to The Washington Post, a newspaper that fervently supported the war, the Pentagon utterly failed to secure Iraq's nuclear facilities at Kut and al Tuwaitha. The result has been wholesale looting, with unknown losses of such potentially dangerous radioactive materials as cesium, cobalt and partially enriched uranium. So far, Special Forces detachments have found at least two nuclear caches that were "plundered extensively enough that authorities could not rule out the possibility that deadly materials had been stolen."

"Now Mr. Rumsfeld might regard this as yet another stupid question, but wasn't the purpose of this invasion to secure and prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction?" - Joe Conason.



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