GOOD NEWS FROM IRAQ!

We found the source of the weapons that are killing our troops!

They're coming from ... er ... the same place they've been coming from all along:

Four years after the Iraq war began, the country remains awash in Saddam-era munitions that provide key ingredients for homemade bombs used against U.S. troops, according to administration documents and military officials.

More than $1 billion has been spent to clear about 15,000 sites of the unsecured weapons. To clear the remaining 3,391 sites, the Pentagon says it needs part of a $1.2 billion request for items to protect U.S. troops in Iraq.

Improvised explosive devices that use the munitions have killed or wounded thousands of U.S. troops. Defense Secretary Robert Gates estimates that 70% of U.S. casualties in Iraq stem from IEDs.

"Insurgents use munitions from stolen caches to construct IEDs," according to the Pentagon's budget request released last month.

...The problem of unsecured munitions was obvious soon after the fall of Saddam Hussein in spring 2003, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I. said.

Reed, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and former Army officer, said there weren't enough U.S. troops in Iraq to destroy the weapons....

"It should have been taken care of immediately," Reed said....

Well, the solution is obvious, right? We have to go to the source of the problem -- we have to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam!

Oh, wait...