AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION

Ever wonder where all those explosives for those Iraqi IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) comes from? Turns out, it's from the same place as those acronyms (an IED is just a bomb, but sounds so much more impressive...)—US administration stupidity.

If I were more of a conspiracy kind of guy, I might tend to think that a great way to justify building and occupying scads of mammoth US military bases in Iraq might be to create a mammoth threat to our forces there. And what better way than to intentionally let this sort of thing happen?

Remember. The only places in Iraq that were secured were those related to oil. Not the country's infrastructure. Not the country's security. And not even the country's arms caches.