BAGHDAD (AFP) - The US government cannot account for 190,000 weapons issued to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to an investigation carried out by the Government Accountability Office.
2007-08-01 06:58:20 · 13 answers · asked by bbbbriggs04 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
What a surprise...a few years ago we sent a couple billion dollars over there (why?) and it "disappeared."
2007-08-01 07:03:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Unbelievable.
The GAO doesn't know where they are but liberals do know.
Did anyone ask the DOD?
There is an accounting gap for one of every 25 weapons.
Most of those gaps are not because of missing weapons. Some are due to the weapon being delivered not in working order and are no longer considered weapons.
Some are damaged and for lack of spare parts or repairs costing more than the unit is worth are stricken from the weapons role but because they were not salvaged yet are in accounting limbo. Yes some were stolen, some lost and some misappropriated or found their way to the black market.
I would like to know how these numbers compare to other conflicts? Higher? lower? About the same? Are they more or less than what can be expected in a combat zone? Or is perfection with a plan for improvement the only acceptable standard?
Interesting that not a single news agency did the work to put it in perspective one way or the other and if a democrat was in office I doubt the AP would have bothered to even run the story. We never did get the details on two missing helicopters during the Clinton administration only that the incident "Was under serious investigation"
The audit said the military's inventory also included some weapons that had been donated, captured from enemies or bought with other funds and serial numbers were not available or not consistent with DOD formats which could significantly lower the original numbers.
Oh well, why do I bother?
It's Bush's rush to war policy that caused the pistols to be missing of course. Silly me.
2007-08-01 07:26:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They "lose" things all the time because someone has forgotten to file the paperwork. Happens all the time.They'll show up somewhere, sometime, by someone in the future. Perhaps by the year 2015 they'll figure it out.
2007-08-01 07:06:04 · answer #3 · answered by CarolSandyToes1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're being used by insurgents, and many were probably sold to terrorists.
Seems that the arms sale to Saudi Arabia is not the only way we're arming our enemies.
2007-08-01 07:03:16 · answer #4 · answered by coragryph 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Put that on the list with all the cash and many other situations they are unable to account for.
2007-08-01 07:02:24 · answer #5 · answered by gone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can't have a Cowboy and Injun war without a bit of arms trade to the "savages".
2007-08-01 07:02:33 · answer #6 · answered by Princessa Macha Venial 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question! And where did that 9 MILLION go missing in Iraq?!
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.audit/
2007-08-01 07:03:30 · answer #7 · answered by Sangria 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe they're with the 4 trillion that the Pentagon can't find....
2007-08-01 07:03:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
this is sad. but the truth is that this government just doesnt get what Islam is about at all...
kepp giving them guns...Im sure we'll see them sooner or later...
2007-08-01 07:02:16 · answer #9 · answered by smitty031 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They are in the hands of the people shooting at our troops.
2007-08-01 07:01:25 · answer #10 · answered by sprcpt 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋