Nuclear facilities missing in Iraq.

[Ivan Seeking]

According to an International Atomic Energy Agency report, equipment that could be used to make atomic weapons vanished in targeted looting at the beginning of the Iraq war. The IAEA routinely visited nuclear-related facilities in Iraq before the war, but the interim administration there has not yet invited the IAEA back to resume inspections. Hear NPR's Mike Shuster.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4108755

...The only building that was guarded when the troops went into Baghdad was the oil ministry
- John Kerry; Coral Gables Debate, 2004

This morning Hans Blitz commented that before the invasion, these facilities were under control.

[Pyrovus]

Wasn't the whole point of the invasion to stop this sort of stuff from falling into the hands of terrorists? Oops.

[wasteofo2]

So wait...

Terrorists got materials to build nukes from Iraq.

THE WAR IS JUSTIFIED NOW, NEW REASON #29!!!

[Ivan Seeking]

Focused leadership, strong and resolute, tough on terror? How in the world do these claims stand? Bush has failed on all counts miserably.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The senior adviser to Iraq's Interior Ministry blamed U.S. forces Tuesday for not securing facilities where the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency says equipment that could be used to make nuclear weapons has vanished.[continued]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/12/iraq.nuclear/

Six months after he said Osama bin Laden must be caught dead or alive, this president was asked, Where is Osama bin Laden? He said, I don't know. I don't really think about him very much. I'm not that concerned.

We need a president who stays deadly focused on the real war on terror---John Kerry; Oct. 13, 2004
Tempe, Ariz. Debate
Confirmed by video replay on NBC immediately after the debate.