Been waiting for this to happen
U.S. Is Said to Fail in Tracking Arms for Iraqis
October 30, 2006 NY Times author James Glanz
The American military has not properly tracked hundreds of thousands of weapons intended for Iraqi security forces and has failed to provide spare parts, maintenance personnel or even repair manuals for most of the weapons given to the Iraqis, a federal report released Sunday has concluded.
The report was undertaken at the request of Senator John W. Warner, the Virginia Republican who is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and who recently expressed an assessment far darker than the Bush administration’s on the situation in Iraq.
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The inspector general’s report also found that money for spare parts was allocated for only 5 of the 12 different kinds of weapons sent to Iraq — and when the inspector general contacted units of the Defense and Interior Ministries, none actually knew how or where to requisition spare parts.
There were also significant discrepancies in the numbers of weapons purchased and those in Iraqi warehouses. While 176,866 semiautomatic pistols were purchased with American money, just 163,386 showed up in warehouses — meaning that more than 13,000 were unaccounted for. All 751 of the M1-F assault rifles sent to Iraq were missing, and nearly 100 MP-5 machine guns.
As Lewis Black would say “Thats a crack jack group of fuckers”
I would so like to point out, since the other headline in todays paper is that the death toll for American in Iraq is 100, do we feel like The Soviet Union in Afganistan here? oh wait…we are there too!
Someone needs to learn a lesson from history. I know they ain’t much inta that bouk Larnin, but history here has big valuable lessons.
peace and Spetsnaz grease