Elephant In Exile

380 Tons

Wow, as someone who initially supported the war, the continuing parade of post war fumbles, (which I'll blame on short changing our troop numbers) is becoming stunning.

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 Saturday. 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 [...]
(NYT)

Since the NYT article I quote above is subscription only, here's the Rueters story.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6598253

Bottom line, do I feel safer? NO.