So tell me, punk....do you feel safer?

From the "Closing the barn door after the horse leaves" file, we have this lovely New York Times reporting about more goodies being looted out of Iraq while we were trying to secure oil wells for the Bush family fortune:

American intelligence agencies have tripled their formal estimate of shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile systems believed to be at large worldwide, since determining that at least 4,000 of the weapons in Iraq's prewar arsenals cannot be accounted for, government officials said Friday.



A new government estimate says a total of 6,000 of the weapons may be outside the control of any government, up from a previous estimate of 2,000, American officials said.



The officials said they did not know whether missiles from Iraq remain there or have been smuggled into other countries, though a senior administration official said Friday that "there is no evidence that they have left the country.''



It was unclear whether Iraqi military or intelligence personnel removed the missile systems during the initial invasion of Iraq or whether they disappeared from warehouses after major combat ended.

So let's not have any of this "Saddam moved them out before we got there" hoop-jumping bullshit from the media gasbags, OK?