March 24, 2007

Unsecured Munitions and US Casualties

So everyone's likely already seen this linked to at Kevin Drum's place, but in case not ...

Remember the president took us into war with too few troops to secure Iraq, and how the military left various sites around Iraq filled with dangerous munitions unguarded? Well, that has predictable had deadly effects - and the scope of those effects is horrifying. From the GAO:

The human, strategic, and financial costs of this failure to provide sufficient troops have been high, with IEDs made with looted munitions causing about half of all U.S. combat fatalities and casualties in Iraq and killing hundreds of Iraqis and contributing to increasing instability, challenging U.S. strategic goals in Iraq.
Posted by armand at March 24, 2007 04:08 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Iraq


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