Monday, August 6, 2007

I KNOW, I KNOW

The newspaper all have a question for us ... a kinda quiz:

Can anyone tell them what happened here?

The Washington Post leads with word that 30 percent of weapons meant for Iraqi security forces appear to be lost. According to a new Government Accountability Office report, the U.S. military can't account for approximately 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols that it handed out between 2004 and 2005.
Do you have a guess?
It's not the first time the issue of missing weapons in Iraq has come up, but this latest estimate is much larger. Of course, the main concern is that the U.S. military has been inadvertently providing weapons to insurgents courtesy of the American taxpayer. The GAO found the military really has no consistent oversight over these weapons, but emphasized that the problem was particularly bad in 2004 and 2005, which is when Gen. David Petraeus, now the top commander in Iraq, ran the training program. The paper talks to a defense analyst who says that while the U.S. military often talks about how Syria and Iran are supplying weapons to insurgents, it has paid little attention to its own role in arming the enemy.

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