The news networks are abuzz after a NYTimes article shows that about 371 tons of high explosive are missing in Iraq from the Al Qaqaa weapons facility.

This facility used to be monitored by the IAEA, who have raised the alarm on the missing explosvies. Kerry has pounced (as he should) on this development.

One pound of HMX (the missing explosive) was used to down Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

By my calculations, that’s 742,000 planes that could be blown up with the amount of missing explosives gone.

The Bush administration has known this for almost a month. In the NYTimes article they attempt some weak spin by noting that Iraq is awash in explosives and the only reason this is being brought to our attention is that the IAEA was watching it and now is making a big deal out of it.

Well, shouldn’t they? And isn’t it pretty weak to state that these missing explosvies aren’t a big deal, since there are a lot more missing explosvies?

This kind of story could be crippling to Bush’s assertion that he’s made us safer. It belies the fact that the war in Iraq is actually producing more terrorists, and unleashing more deadly components for terrorists on the world.