Weapons Remain Unaccounted for in Iraq

By WILLIAM J. KOLE, Associated Press Writer

VIENNA, Austria - "From the deserts of the south and west to the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites) is awash in weapons sites — some large, others small; some guarded, others not. Even after the U.S. military secured some 400,000 tons of munitions, as many as 250,000 tons remain unaccounted for."

If this information from Associated Press is correct then the following questions emerge:

Who sold Iraq the munitions? Could it, by any chance, have been the USA?

Given the level of insurgency within Iraq, when will it occur to the military who are part of the occupying forces, that this amount of equipment is what is what makes it possible to undertake the bombings which are happening?

Assuming that this level of understanding is being reached, when are the authorities going to secure the sites and prevent the insurgents from being able to access them?

I find it difficult to believe that information about these sites is not available to the Americans following their interrogation of all of the high ranking officials that they captured in the aftermath of their attack on Iraq.

Are people dying needlessly because of incompetence or stupidity?