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Weapons Given to Iraq Are Missing, GAO Estimates 30% of Arms Are Unaccounted For


US Politics & Gov't  (tags: "PEACE!", 9/11, americans, bush, bushadministration, cheney, crime, impeach, iran, iraq, lies, military, neocons, pentagon, politics, troops, terrorism, war, usa, corruption )

Ratty
- 955 days ago - washingtonpost.com
The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to a new government report, raising fears that some of those weapons have fallen into the hands of insurgents fighting
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Ron Goodman (417)
Sunday August 5, 2007, 10:16 pm
Figures. They will be used against us like weapons always are. Someone makes a nice chunk of change and others get killed...eventually. 190,000 weapons? Someone wasn't watching? Its all the "BIG AMERICAN RIP OFF". WE pay, THEY kill. No one will be held accountable....watch!
 

Blacktiger P. (232)
Sunday August 5, 2007, 10:56 pm
Geez, who woulda guessed? Shades of Contra.
 

BMutiny TCorporationsEvil (427)
Sunday August 5, 2007, 11:08 pm
Yes, of COURSE, those 190,000 AK-47s WILL BE USED TO KILL AMERICAN TROOPS; OUR BOYS AND GIRLS, OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS. ARMS SUPPLIED BY THE BUSH MIS-ADMINISTRATION FOR THAT VERY PURPOSE. And the Bushie mis-Administration has the NERVE to try and tell Americans that "arms killing our Troops are coming from IraN"! When the arms are actually coming from BUSHCO!
I AM CONVINCED MORE AND MORE EVERY DAY, THAT BUSHCO IS DELIBERATELY SENDING AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF STRONG YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN TO BE SLAUGHTERED.
THEY ARE WALKING AROUND WITH BIG RED TARGETS PAINTED ON THEIR FRONTS AND BACKS.
THEY ARE IN IRAQ FOR NO OTHER PURPOSE AT ALL, THAN TO GET THEMSELVES KILLED. DEAD.
The "Surge", had NO OTHER PURPOSE AT ALL, than to GET MORE TROOPS KILLED. DEAD.
And MORE troops killed. And MORE troops killed.
And those unlucky enough to survive, to be crippled, amputated, brain-damaged, blinded, INSANE.
BUSH WANTS THIS AND DOES IT ON PURPOSE.
That way, THERE WON'T BE ANYONE STRONG ENOUGH, MENTALLY OR PHYSICALLY, when Bush/Cheney make themselves DICTATORS FOR LIFE.
Just a few old geezers too old to fight.
BUSH IS LAUGHING AT THE TROOPS WHO ARE SO "LOYAL" TO HIM, AS TO GET THEMSELVES KILLED BECAUSE THEY LOVE HIM SO MUCH.
Don't tell the troops you are for "Peace"; TELL THEM BUSHCO WANTS THEM KILLED; AND THEY ARE BLINDLY CO-OPERATING WITH THIS SCHEME OF THEIR OWN MURDER.
It is RUSSIAN ROULETTE; if they don't get blown apart by an IED today, they get sent out over the same route and get blown apart by an IED tomorrow.
Don't talk to the troops about "Peace"; talk to them about SURVIVAL. THEIRS.
TELL THE TROOPS THE TRUTH.
When the troops realize the TRUTH of their survival chances -- ZERO -- THEY WILL MUTINY. Troops ALWAYS HAVE, under such circumstances!
I have just finished reading a real eye-opener about MUTINIES THAT ENDED THE SLAUGHTER OF WWI.
They were MUCH, MUCH, MUCH. MUCH, MUCH more WIDESPREAD than ANY history I ever read, has mentioned!!! I have been referred to the ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS AND COURT CASES.
There were MUTINIES after WWI in the CANADIAN, BRITISH, RUSSIAN, GERMAN, AND FRENCH ARMIES.
VERY frequent and VERY widespread. And, OFTEN, ACTUALLY BRINGING THE TROOPS HOME EARLY.
Historians, writing biased histories for the ruling class, don't want to go NEAR the TRUE HISTORY of these MUTINIES with a ten-foot pole!
Under the HOPELESS circumstances our troops find themselves in, TROOPS HAVE ALWAYS, HISTORICALLY, MUTINIED.
I am SURE, that MUTINIES are occurring in the American {and maybe British} Army RIGHT NOW as we speak, that Military Censorship is, as it ALWAYS does, DESPERATELY TRYING TO COVER UP.
THAT is exactly why the MIlitary has CLAMPED DOWN ON SOLDIERS' USE OF THE INTERNET; so that their FAMILIES don't know; and so that OTHER TROOPS DON'T KNOW OF THE MUTINIES.
TELL THE TROOPS THE TRUTH.
THE TROOPS ARE BEING SLAUGHTERED BY AMERICAN WEAPONS SUPPLIED BY AMERICAN COMPANIES BY AMERICAN SUPPLY LINES, to Iraqis. THE PURPOSE IS, BUSH WANTS THE AMERICANS SLAUGHTERED.
JUST LIKE HE WANTED AMERICANS SLAUGHTERED DURING 9/11.
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO END TO THAT MAN'S EVIL.
Why should ANY troops obey THEIR OWN MURDERER for even another minute or second??????????
BMT


 

Ratty Ratman (160)
Monday August 6, 2007, 1:39 am
Here's some stuff we need to spread around and get troops to see, here's 3 links and then a vid they should all see about DU.


Troops Resist:
1)
http://www.sirnosir.com
2)
http://www.ivaw.org/
3)
http://www.couragetoresist.org

Iraq war veteran discusses DU (Depleted Uranium), racism, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Y5b2uU6Uw
This video from
http://www.libertynewstv.com/
 

JohnBessa VSOP (309)
Monday August 6, 2007, 4:43 am
I personally have always had good relations with soldiers throughout my life. This goes against my culture; because it is pacifist, it can be biased. My background starts with Vietnam protesting.

In the days before drug tests, I used to party-hearty with the military.

I personally experienced the terror attack on the WTC in NYC on 9/11/2001 From that experience I believe that we are dealing with a phenomena all over the world that we are not prepared to understand, and that we cannot negotiate with. Also the renegade armies in Africa are very scary, and will not respond to the usual peaceful solutions.

For that reason, the military is going to be with us for a while, no matter that we personally desire to see war go away.
 

Stephen Hannon (214)
Monday August 6, 2007, 5:49 am
I'm really not surprised at all. The weapons probably went with the missing $2 billion from Halliburton.
 

Stephen Hannon (214)
Monday August 6, 2007, 5:50 am
Or is it $20 billion? Can't remember which now.
 

Ratty Ratman (160)
Monday August 6, 2007, 6:56 am
On 9/10/2001 (a day before the attacks) Rumsfeld admited that the Pentagon could not account for 2.3 TRillion.

Yes, that is $2,300,000,000,000.00

Here's the CBS News link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml

I reference that in a youtube video I just put up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUk1tIRL58s

We have to stop this for profit death machine.

 

James S. (25)
Monday August 6, 2007, 3:02 pm
I submitted this story yesterday: Made Front Page last night:

http://www.care2.com/news/member/401975806/444203
 

David Cromie (56)
Monday August 6, 2007, 4:16 pm
Note that immediately after the invasion, those in command did not even think to guard the Iraqi arms dumps, so the lot were looted. They must be running out of weapons, bombs and explosives by now! Never mind, Uncle Sam will fill the deficiency!!
 

Dave Kane (159)
Monday August 6, 2007, 4:47 pm
What a racket!!! Start a war -- supply everybody with weapons; help it to spread, just like an infectious disease. Then sit back and laugh as you roll around in all your blood money.

Bush has finally joined the family business Big TIme. That'll show his wimpy dad, the guy who wouldn't kill Saddam.
 

Barry Seth (118)
Monday August 6, 2007, 8:51 pm
The United States is the biggest arms dealer in the world, but no one in Iraq could afford our prices. So, we just had a big "fire" sale.
 

Ratty Ratman (160)
Wednesday August 15, 2007, 9:43 pm

Here's Keith Olberman on the weapons, etc:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbmx3AG2bQk&mode=related&search=
 

David Cromie (56)
Thursday August 16, 2007, 4:33 am
The opinion of Gen Clarke should carry a lot of weight with Bushco, but obviously not!! Even allowing for the fact that he is a military man, with a military outlook, he has NOTHING good to say about the US position in Iraq, surprise, surprise!!
 

Teresa del Castillo (1599)
Monday August 27, 2007, 2:49 pm
noted
 
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