If there is any lingering doubt about the Bush administration's incompetence in making us safer from WMDs, this report should quickly dispel them. It explores the failure to secure Iraqi scientists who were associated with past nuclear and biological weapons programs.
"Nobody knows how many Iraqi scientists may have been lured over the borders into Iran, Syria, or beyond. Nobody knows because no one is keeping tabs. But several observers agree that so little attention is being paid to Iraq's scientists, the war may actually have increased the chances of nuclear capabilities proliferating beyond the country's borders. Between its unemployed scientists and the disappearance of large amounts of WMD-related materials from former weapons sites, Iraq now poses a nightmare scenario, according to Ray McGovern, who spent 27 years analyzing intelligence for the CIA and afterward cofounded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity."
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/09/armageddon.html