Those dirty details

The New York Times > Washington > Campaign 2004 > Kerry Attacks Bush Over Loss of Explosives

"Last night on this broadcast we reported that the 101st Airborne never found the nearly 380 tons of HMX and RDX explosives,'' Tom Brokaw, the NBC anchor, said. "We did not conclude the explosives were missing or had vanished, nor did we say they missed the explosives. We simply reported that the 101st did not find them.''

"For its part, the Bush campaign immediately pointed to our report as conclusive proof that the weapons had been removed before the Americans arrived,'' Mr. Brokaw added. "That is possible, but that is not what we reported.''

For the second day Mr. Bush did not speak about the issue, twice ignoring questions from reporters.

We do know that the US was informed about this weapons cache before the war and absolutely no effort was made to search or secure the site during the war.
And who is responsible? Ultimately, the President. Again it points to the lack of planning that went into the war and the poor way it was and continues to be waged. Does this make you feel any safer?