One of the interesting things about this story is that there is no positive spin. The bottom line is the same regardless of the explanation. Bush and Rummy's War Plan sucked.
- If the explosives were moved before the war, the explosives are MISSING!
- If an organized group moved the explosives after the war started, the explosives are MISSING!
- If the explosives were looted by a bunch of random Iraqis, the explosives are MISSING.
Bush is responsible for these missing explosives regardless of when they went missing. The IAEA had them under wraps until Bush started Mess O'Potemia and withdrew the inspectors.
The first two scenarios presuppose a plan to retreat, go to ground, and begin fighting as an organized insurgency after the initial invasion. The insurgency we are fighting now was planned!!
The third scenario assumes the insurgency was spawned spontaneously and literally thousands of like minded Iraqis looted the place clean at the beginning of the war knowing they were going to fight. Oh-oh
The specific facts of of how these explosives went missing are inconsequential. Bush screwed up and there are 760,000lbs of high explosives available for Islamist Jihad and the Iraqi insurgency. There is no way to spin this screwup. Every scenario points to Bush's incompetence. He's fucked on this one.