Reply #11: The real point is, why weren't there enough troops in Iraq... [View All]

[tomfodw]

...to secure all the weapons and arms and explosives we knew were blanketing the entire country? (Or at least the IAEA knew.) Why did Rumsfeld insist on using a bare minimum size force just enough to secure a rapid victory in the march on Baghdad rather than include additional forces sufficient for a secure occupation? Why did the Defense Department ignore all warnings that the post-war aftermath was not going to be as peaceful as they were assuming? Why did they never even question their assumptions? Why did Bush let them get away with all this incompetence? And why has no one - no one - in the entire Bush Administration been held accountable for the morass that they let Iraq become?

Those are the real questions, not what happened to 380 tons of dangerous explosives at one dump. Although that's an important question, too.