John Kerry jumped on the story of missing explosives with both feet, shortly after it was broken by the news media. Unfortunately, he's finding it very hard to maintain the argument that explosives went missing because of American screw-ups without denigrating the troops he claims to support.
And now, we're learning, among other things, the explosive may have been gone by the time any American forces got to al Qaqaa. Furthermore, we may have photos of the trucks that moved stuff out of the facility in the weeks before the war.
Given the reaction this story is provoking, I imagine Kerry wishes he'd spent as much as seven minutes pondering the implications before he charged ahead with it.
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