beardedbruce, it's you who are trying to have it both ways:

1) if it's not dangerous, it doesn't matter that we lost it, so we're doing fine

2) if it IS dangerous, then Saddam had WMD so we were right to go into Iraq, so we're doing fine.

On the other side, you could say:

1) if it's not dangerous, then we screwed up going into Iraq becuae there were no WMD.

2) if it IS dangerous, then we screwed up in losing the materials.

You subscribe to one of these fallacies, and make fun of people who subscribe to the other.