I fear you're correct. But any objective look at the situation shows it's Bush's fault:
Prior to March 2003 - U.N. inspectors visit
numerous Iraqi weapons sites, including Al Qaqaa, looking for WMDs. Al Qaqaa is a known explosives armory, but not one with WMDs.
March 2003 - U.N. inspectors leave Iraq at Bush's urging.
March 19, 2003 - U.S. invasion of Iraq begins.
April 9, 2003 - Baghdad falls.
April 10, 2003 - U.S. troops arrive at Al Qaqaa, and
according to NBC in-bedded reporters, the explosives are nowhere to be found.
So even if this last item is accurate, this still never would have happened a) if Bush hadn't kicked the weapons inspectors out of Iraq, and b) even after kicking out the weapons inspectors, if the military had been instructed to secure known weapons/explosives stashes
first, before securing the oil ministry.
As
Robert Fisk wrote in The Independent, "US troops have sat back and allowed mobs to wreck and then burn the Ministry of Planning, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Irrigation, the Ministry of Trade, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Information.
"They did nothing to prevent looters from destroying priceless treasures of Iraq's history in the Baghdad Archaeological Museum and in the Museum in the northern city of Mosul, nor from looting three hospitals."
The price for this negligence remains to be seen.