i'm surprised no one's posted on this. (maybe i just missed it.) in a story i assume has not been picked up by fox, the feds have lost thousands of small arms weapons, body armor, and pistols in iraq. apparently bush's ass was found over there, too, which is funny because one would have thought it would be attached to him.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2143071,00.html

naturally many more american and presumably innocent iraqi lives will be lost as bush fuels the civil war going on over there with weapons deliberately and accidentally being fed to all sides. just when you thought the war couldn't get any worse or its administration any more inept, they find a way.

One of the largest suppliers of arms to the VietCong was Smith and Wesson.  Follow the money, find the problem.

i have to admit that, for an article on such a grim subject, this is actually rather amusing.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2146642,00.html

According to the US government accountability department - I know! the what? - 135,000 pieces of body armour are also missing, and even the most frothingly diehard supporters of the whole Iraq adventure are being forced to concede that the figures "raise questions".

Quite. Like: is there a decimal point missing in those figures - perhaps about three numbers in? Did we get tired of asymmetric warfare, so we're now trying to level the playing field a little for these people? Can we at least please stop cursing Iran for supplying insurgents with weapons when we do such a bang-up job of it ourselves? Is the coalition more or less proud than on the occasion when it failed to secure 380 tonnes of explosives after it had captured the al-Qaida installation in which the cache was housed? And finally, is the point at which we can't even locate our own weapons of destruction in Iraq the point at which even the Bush administration has to accept things are pretty much terminally screwed for its mission over there?

Alas, we do not have the answers, because a Pentagon spokesman explains that the multinational force in Iraq is still preparing a response. And really, which of us wouldn't need a bit of time on that one? As yet the administration will only go so far as to concede that "some" of the weapons will have "fallen into" the hands of insurgents - such a peculiarly woolly styling that you'd think they were attempting to suggest that the vast majority of these AK-47s and pistols were adopted by kindly Iraqi families and are now living peaceable existences on country farms, where they scare hot-weather crows and shoot tin cans off rustic fences.

Check Craigslist or ebay.

It's no longer incompetence.  Now it's just farce.
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