My wife suggests that this may be why our precious President has refused to get deeply into the fray. He is president, he can't go off half-cocked. He is not going to publicly criticize Putin and Russia without good cause (meaning only if he is prepared to do something about it!).
Kerry doesn't give a 'Rats rear end for the troops or our country. He cares about John Kerry - and has wanted to President since he was a child (last week).
Please have a news conference tomorrow releasing this, and then let's go to Syria and clean them out next....
Criticize Putin? Frankly, I will be happy if the Russians grabbed this stuff (the alternative is that Saddam/terrorists did).
The Russians and Germans were the sellers of the higher magnitude of weapons at Al Qa Qaa.
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/facility/al_qa_qaa.htm
When coalition forces were poised for six months awaiting UN and DEMOCRATIC approval(resistance), the Russians and Germans removed them from AL Qa Qaa and stored them in neighboring Syria primarily. Each had seperate arrangements.
The soldiers who were there saw streams of large tire tracks leaving the facility, showing a recent flurry of transportation.
The news agencies had an article mentioning that the Russians and Germans were doing this to 'secure' these items during the ensuing invasion. They probably saved lives by doing so.
We have sat pictures of convoys moving from Iraq to Syria.
At the time, I believe it was in the news that we didn't interfere, because they had Russians troops manning the convoy, and we had no way to prove they were doing anything wrong.
Oh, yeah. http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/facility/tuwaitha.htm