What kind of moron actually believes that looters were able to make of with 380 tons of explosives out from under the noses of a military that can take pictures like this? Personally, I doubt that there are nearly as many who actually believed it as compared to the number who wanted to believe it and didn't question it because they are blinded by their hartred of Bush.

Wizbang points out that the reporter who provided the video "proving" that Bush failed to guard Al-Caca does not know to this day that he was even at the facility (from an interview with Paula Zahn):

Zahn: First of all, Dean, are you convinced of the fact that you actually were at the al Qa Qaa weapons site?

DEAN STALEY, REPORTER, KSTP-TV: Almost certainly.
I think in terms [of whatever] I've been able to learn about where it is, just how big it is and where it is in relation to the place that we were camped with the 101st Airborne, I don't think there's any question that we were in some part of the al Qa Qaa compound.

ZAHN: Let's check in with Michael for a moment here.
What do you make of these highly conflicting stories? You hear Dean's account. We know the date is on that tape. It's encrypted on the tape. So, on one hand, that would seem to indicate that some of those weapons were there after the war began, and yet, the Pentagon today releases a satellite photo that they claim was taken two days before the war got under way showing activity which appear to be trucks perhaps maybe moving some of these materials away from the site.

MICHAEL LYSOBEY, FORMER WEAPONS INSPECTOR: Well, the materials at that site or the materials that I saw in the video are not necessarily the HMX, which is the high explosive used in a nuclear implosion device.
What we saw in the tape were a bunch of barrels and a bunch of explosive caps. Al Qa Qaa is an explosives facility. So that's what we'd expect to see. The explosives that we're worried about, we don't know. This isn't definitive proof that those explosives were there.

So the sum total of this story, when you cut thru the hyperbole, is that some TV station has a few seconds of video of something that looks similar to an IAEA tag taken somewhere in Iraq but we're not really sure where.

The reaction from John Kerry and the hysterics on the Left has been educational. Either they believe that the 3ID and 101st Airborne were incompetent and did not search Al Qaqaa despite the 3ID's insistence that they did and contemporaneous reporting showing the discovery of suspicious materials during their search, or they have cynically seized upon the shoddy and screechy reporting by the NY Times and CBS as a lever to grab power. In both cases, they want us to believe that America was better off leaving all of this material in Saddam's hands, material that they've said for over a year didn't warrant military action, and now claim that Western civilization hangs in the balance because 0.06% of it may have gone missing.

Either they are complete fools or rank opportunists. Take your pick. Neither promises to keep us safe from the people who want nothing more than to kill large numbers of us at the first opportunity.