Minneapolis Star-Tribune editorial: "the perfect storm of incompetence"

Two news stories out of Iraq Monday illustrated again the incompetence that President Bush and his national security team have brought to the war in Iraq:

• In the first story, Scot J. Paltrow, a Wall Street Journal reporter, tells how the White House prevented the Pentagon from taking out terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi months before the war began. Zarqawi is the Jordanian behind the current attacks on Americans and Iraqis.
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It's been 18 months since the explosives went missing, yet news of the loss is only now being made public. Why? "The Nelson Report," a well-regarded security newsletter that first broke this story, quotes administration officials saying the Pentagon put pressure on Iraq and on the IAEA not to publicize the loss. The report quotes one "highly informed official" saying that "this is the stuff the bad guys have been using to kill our troops, so you can't ignore the political implications of this, and you would be correct to suspect that politics, or the fear of politics, played a major role in delaying the release of this information."

Here you have the perfect storm of incompetence: Before the war, the Bush administration rejected Pentagon efforts to take out Zarqawi. Following the war, the Bush administration failed to secure 377 tons of high explosives that could help Zarqawi kill more Americans. Then they tried to hide the loss. It's mind-boggling.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5053560.html

The only thing these people can do right is cheat Americans out of any hope of a fair and honest election. THAT they do well.

Not gonna take it this time, thugs. We are not gonna sit for it while you rape America and call us names.

Look on the bright side: at least it isn't Condi.

No matter how the Bushcos try to spin it, the fact is that 380 tons of explosives that the administration KNEW WAS THERE have been missing for 18 MONTHS. Doesn't matter when they disappeared, they are gone and more energy has been spent on coverup than in trying to figure out where these explosives have gone.

I looked before but I can't search- not registered.

which was no surprise. Most days it's fairly easy to love that paper.

Mr. President, we chose hope over fear

time to get to any undecideds who are sensitive to the the young kids and their families. It is too much to conceptualize - we let those kids get killed to some extent.