[NormsRevenge]

Masked Iraqi soldiers stand next to confiscated munitions near a weapons cache found near Tikrit, 01 March 2007. As of October 2006 US forces had still not secured all of the unguarded munition sites in Iraq, allowing thieves to keep stealing war material and stoke the country's violence, a US government report said Thursday.(AFP/File/Dia Hamid)

[Rick_Michael]

Find them, destroy them.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

more of what Gates had to say is here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032202017.html

I'm speechless.....I had believed that most of this was taken care of soon after the Al Qa Qaa site came to public attention.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

We would need to double the troops to guard everything in Iraq....the amount of munitions there is just unreal !

[KantianBurke]

"The widespread looting occurred because DOD (the Department of Defense) had insufficient troop levels to secure conventional munitions storage sites," it said, citing war reports and defense officials."

"Stuff happens.' Just ask Rummy.