Martini Republic - W Bush: the great disassembler.: "Whenever Bush says we're safer because we invaded Iraq, bear this in mind:

U.N. satellite imagery experts have determined that material that could be used to make biological or chemical weapons and banned long-range missiles has been removed from 109 sites in Iraq, U.N. weapons inspectors said in a report obtained Thursday.

U.N. inspectors have been blocked from returning to Iraq since the U.S.-led war in 2003 so they have been using satellite photos to see what happened to the sites that were subject to U.N. monitoring because their equipment had both civilian and military uses.

The material, along with tons of munitions, explosives, irreplaceable artifacts and billions of dollars, was lost in the chaos of post-war Iraq, as too-few troops (per the inspired ideologically-driven stupidity of Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz) failed to secure equipment with potential WMD use, although via inspections we had a list of exactly where everything was.

Before the war, the equipment was secured and inspected regularly;  after the invasion, it was left unguarded, and Bush refused to let the inspectors back into the country to track the equipment — which is now missing."

(Via Martini Republic.)