This is big.

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 24 - The Iraqi interim government has warned the United States and international nuclear inspectors that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives - used to demolish buildings, produce missile warheads and detonate nuclear weapons - are missing from one of Iraq’s most sensitive former military installations.

The huge facility, called Al Qaqaa, was supposed to be under American military control but is now a no-man’s land, still picked over by looters as recently as Sunday. United Nations weapons inspectors had monitored the explosives for many years, but White House and Pentagon officials acknowledge that the explosives vanished after the American invasion last year.

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In this case, both the crime (of not guarding high explosives) and the cover-up are equally heinous.

Of course, Josh Marshall has been all over this the last couple of days- if you’re not checking his site every ten minutes you’re missing out.

One last thing- this quote stuck out in the Times piece:

“Should we have gone there? Definitely,” said one senior administration official. “But there are a lot of things we should have done, and didn’t.”

Does this sound like Rumsfeld? Of course.
Does he always pose questions to himself? Not always, but often.
Isn’t this yet another reason to throw the bums out? Absolutely.