WHAT HAPPENED TO LOOTED IRAQI NUKE MATERIAL?

Brett Wagner's excellent piece on the Bushco malfeasance in USA today. Good example of how BUSHCO is actually making things more dangerous for us.

Brett Wagner is running against neocon drone Elton Gallegly for congress in our So Cal district.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2003-10-05-wagner_x.htm

"A great irony, however, seems to have gotten lost in that debate: As a direct result of President Bush's decision to invade Iraq without sufficient forces to secure and protect its nuclear research and storage facilities from rampant looting, enough radioactive material to build scores of dirty bombs now is missing and may be on its way to the international black market....

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Skinner
DU Admin

seem to have been lost in the debate. One of them being the current going line of the more progressive DU'ers that the invasion of Iraq was formulated on a complete lie. Missing radioactive material seems to suggest that WMD isn't as hard to find in Iraq as those who completely opposed the war suggested. Can you see the irony and the fault in logic? If there is missing radioactive material then the WMD premise of the war is back on track. To indulge even in the argument of whether the war caused radioactive material to be looted seems rather to support the premise of the war, which is that material for WMD's exist in Iraq. One cannot have it both ways, arguing that the war was formed on a lie and then arguing that the war caused nuclear material to be dispersed. If as Democrats we are going to argue that nuclear material being looted was an undesirable side effect of the war, we are tacitly admitting that the war was not fought under false pretenses.
This is the same flawed logic that had some less thoughtful DU'ers opposing, simultaneously, the sanctions on Iraq as well as the war on Iraq. I opposed the sanctions, too. But as an opponent of the sanctions I understood that the only way sanctions could be lifted was if Saddam were removed.
One cannot have it both ways. The same holds true with the missing nuclear materials. Which is it going to be DU'ers?