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Pentagon cannot account for 14,030 weapons

Discussion in 'General' started by nauc, Oct 31, 2006.

  1. #1 nauc, Oct 31, 2006
    almost 4 percent of the semiautomatic pistols, assault rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and other weapons it began supplying to Iraq since the end of 2003, according to a report from the office of the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction.

    The missing weapons will not be tracked easily: The Defense Department registered the serial numbers of only about 10,000 of the 370,251 weapons it provided -- less than 3 percent.

    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/290450_iraqaudit30.html
     
  2. #2 ZerO Stay Tokin, Oct 31, 2006
    uncle osama has them.

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  3. #3 Rasta_Man, Oct 31, 2006
    That is a fuckload of ordinance to be missing.

    ohh AND taxpayer money.
     
  4. #4 Kalect, Oct 31, 2006
    Actually, it's more expensive to bring small arms (Small meaning even bazookas) back home than it is to produce new ones. Militaries from all countries routinely leave behind their arms. Gun runners usually get ahold of them unless they are destroyed (which most times they aren't, it costs $$$) and sell them to others. The governement doesn't care because it's cheaper for them, and the guns often find themselves in the hands of people they cannot support directly, but who have the same enemy as we do.

    If you have never seen Lord of War, I suggest you watch it. Extremely good movie based on true events.

    Weapons disappear all the time. The difference this time is someone noticed. Still, this will be forgotten next week, and no one will realize the next massacre in the middle east or africa is carried out with our weapons.

    And technically, it's probobly not even among the larger instances of illegal disappearance of weapons.
     
  5. #5 chipcago, Oct 31, 2006
    Yep, pretty much.
     
  6. #6 DirtyPete, Oct 31, 2006
    Well, that's nothing compared to the 2.3 trillion dollars that Donald Rumsfled told us they were missing on September 10, 2001.


    "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions"

    8,000 dollars for every man woman and child.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUKJNxdmX6Y
     
  7. #7 chronictoker, Oct 31, 2006
    I've always wanted an rpg...for hunting bald eagles. So if anybodys knows wheres I can get me one of those, holler. I'm willing to trade refugees for them, just name your price....
     
  8. #8 Rasta_Man, Oct 31, 2006
    I knew that was out there somewhere, thanks for finding it.

    2.3 trillion dollars.

    That could finance a small army with the ability to hit a first world country in unconventional means while keeping their true motives and identity secret ;)
     
  9. #9 Bleezie_King, Oct 31, 2006
    missing, or SOLD?
     
  10. #10 Kalect, Oct 31, 2006

    Heh, That's pretty much semantics. If their missing, someone sold them.
     
  11. #11 Eckolaker, Oct 31, 2006
  12. #12 Eckolaker, Oct 31, 2006
    As for the missing munitions...I call shannanigans!

    My guess, is that they were either sold, stolen(from the inside), or used in a manner that we would not them tracked. Such as the mortar attack last?
     
  13. #13 IGotTheCottons, Oct 31, 2006
    LMFAO!!! Dude... That's great!

    It reminded me of an article I read in MAXIM a while back... You can go to Indonesia and blow a cow up with an RPG for $400... You can shoot chickens and shit with Anti-Aircraft Artillery for $200...
     
  14. #14 chipcago, Nov 1, 2006
    Here's a political cartoon regarding the issue.

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    'I the only one thinkin' political cartoons are just too damn cliche?
     

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