“The actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there. Did they search carefully enough? Didn’t they search carefully enough?”

-Rudolph Giuliani, October 28, 2004

Meanwhile Bush has been on the campaign trail ascribing his failures in leadership to the commanders and troops in Iraq:

“The Senator is denigrating the actions of our troops and commanders in the field without knowing the facts.”

So Kerry says Bush made a horrendous mistake in allowing 380 tons of explosives to go missing, and Bush deflects the blame onto the troops.

How can any thinking human being accept this?