I could excuse failing to seal off a site that we knew nothing about.
Failing to secure sites that the we knew contained nuclear material from
IAEA reports in inexcusable.

Inexcuseable to you because you won't see reality. When U.S. forces got within
11 miles of Baghdad, there was a lot of issues to be dealt with, not least of
which was destroying Iraqi units that we believed had CW weapons and were
preparing to use them. If you were the 3ID commander (which is who you are
attacking here, not the President) do you detach forces to secure a *suspected*
(despite the IAEA report, the Iraqis moved material around quite a bit and
there was just as good a chance this site had nothing in it. The IAEA reported
"through the 1990s", what about since then?) WMD facility and leave some of
your forces short handed for an attack on unit that is *suspected* of having CW
weapons and is preparing to use them?

What it does know,
according to officials at the Pentagon and U.S. Central Command, is that the
sprawling campus, 11 miles south of Baghdad, lay unguarded for days and that
looters made their way inside.

This is who your beef is with, the Pentagon (indirectly I suppose) and CENTCOM
(more directly the commander of the 3rd Infantry Division who was running the
show in that sector). Ultimately you can blame CDRUSCENTCOM Gen. Tommy Franks I
guess.

Gen. Franks is not incompetent.

He isn't the subject of this thread.


Bush has and had nothing to do with force taskings during Operation IRAQI
FREEDOM.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"