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- gogun, on 10/10/2007, -2/+63America Can't keep track of;
Guns
WMDs
Ballots
USDs
Civilian casualties
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But it can keep track of;
tax evaders
Oil
Security(for top officials only)
- angusm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+56I'm sure the 190,000 missing weapons will turn up. Probably in groups of 5-10 at a time, pointed at US soldiers.
- polyGone, on 10/10/2007, -4/+38Just like they lost pallets worth of money............
Keyword: pallets - Wonkanobi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+32The U.S. has a long history of arming the people they end up fighting
- angusm, on 10/10/2007, -4/+27Not strictly BS. "Government Accountability" is an oxymoron, like "military intelligence" or "Windows Genuine Advantage" ...
- Jonjonr6, on 10/10/2007, -3/+25Anyone see Lord of War?
- 2k3john, on 10/10/2007, -5/+26Who ARE these morons that are running this country! Considering that soldiers are getting bills from the military (recent story on Digg) for equipment lost or destroyed during Iraq duty, does this mean the generals in charge over there will be getting a bill too? Bet not.
Idiots. - kazamx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17No wonder this war is costing America so much money, they are funding both sides.
I remember last year when tens of thousands of Dollars in cash went 'missing' after insurgents stole it from a police base. Now we find out that not only are the insurgents getting their money from the Americans, but the weapns too. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15they say soldiers are firing over 300,000 rounds of amunition for every kill they make too
something smells like ***** to me, these weapons are surely being sold black market style or just flat out GIVEN to insurgents to be used against our own soldiers
190,000 and billions of rounds of amunition dont just mysteriously vanish - murphygr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13well they'll give back the bullets eventually
- khail250, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13sweet thats the $2100.00 I had to pay for getting an honorable discharge from the Navy
- fernB, on 10/10/2007, -7/+18I dugg it but I think it may be inaccurate because the "Government Accountability Office" I think that is BS...
- NSMike, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11What is this, AOL?
- zyl0x, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13Why the ***** am I being buried? The guy said he thinks the department sounds like BS. I'm proving it's not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Accountability_Office - spamly, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11This is a typical military problem (speaking from experience). They have a hard time keeping track of most inventories.
Sadly, there is a general lack of sensible accountability. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10dont forget they were pallets of hundred dollars bills
pallets of singles, and hundreds are a huge difference
i believe it was TONS of pallets of hundreds as welll - zyl0x, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10FYI, the Government Accountability Office is not made up, even though my post above is being buried because of this claim.
See for yourself.
http://www.gao.gov/
I'm not saying that they actually CLAIMED all of these lost items, but the department is real. - Lumbeekid06, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9something tells me that this fits into the bad things category.
- Onyxblaze, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Uh... I'm from the USA, and finding an M16 in the bushes would make my day too.
- shadowspawn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8why can't my tax dollars go towards something simple, like FOOD?
A well-fed and nourished populace is the best and most docile. Ok might need to work on the sewage systems, but god damn the food would've been better than guns. - Alphateam, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11Maybe this is the WMD they were looking for.
I mean if they were all in a big pile It would have a lot of mass, they are weapons and it could cause destruction.
See there are really WMD's in Iraq. - valdo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9On the positive note, hernia is quickly spreading through the insurgent ranks from carrying around all the "unaccounted" weapons.
- StudsTurkel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8We make some pallets that cost $120.......
Keyword: pallets - tzonic, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10Pallets don't really cost that much. Did you mean lost pallets OF money?
- cloudyprison, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6The most accurate government records are tax records.
- maj0rm0j0, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6We'll find them. I just have complete faith in our administration when it comes to finding missing weapons. (sarcasm ofcourse)
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Insane, isn't it?
- redfox2600, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Just check on ebay to see if an M-16 pallet is for sale then.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5They’re not missing; army contractors are selling them.
Or trading with the Saudis: Guns for Oil. - mythandros, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Isn't this just black ops funding?
- MadOgre, on 10/10/2007, -5/+9Shouldn't it read as Iraq lost weapons instead of the US? We issued the weapons to them... we knew who we gave the weapons too. WTF did they do with them?
- duggtodeath, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Why is zebbie being dugg down? NORAD could not find 4 HIJACKED PLANES! He is right.
- Smurph0404, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I think it should be pointed out that "weapons" is an extremely general term in a military setting.
- sjrosen9, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5The Bush administration tinkered the original article title: "Iraq buys 190,000 weapons from US"
- aaronjgoodrich, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4well, at least we find out there is a government accountability office!
I didn't know we even had one! - DarkHumour, on 10/10/2007, -6/+9Now we can find them an call them weapons of mass destruction.
- zebbie, on 10/10/2007, -5/+8you missed out "hijacked aircraft"
- zyl0x, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7http://www.gao.gov/
- DruSam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3That would be me, the American tax payer.
- skyfire1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3He's refering to a scene where a guy purchases thousands of M4s dropped by US troops.
- unknownpoltroon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I think were getting them back one bullet at a time, with some of the explosives thrown into the deal only slightly used.
- smackywentz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I believe they'll be getting receipts.
- murphygr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3i mean, its not like they were issued to the Iraqi security forces... or that ANY of the members of the Iraqi security forces are corrupt...
- hode, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Good news if you're in the weapons business.
- murphygr, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4even butthead from beavis and butthead would call that stupid right now, and he's pretty stupid
- adgreene, on 10/10/2007, -4/+6At least the government is paying for the weapons and not...oh, wait.
- ICSU, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Voters. Too bad there are so many morons among them too.
- cawpin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Well, if they were issued to IRAQI security forces it seems that the IRAQI security forces couldn't keep track of them.
- smackywentz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I used to work there. We were told we were to go to our cubicles, get out a pen and piece of paper. Draw a series of concentric circles on the paper. Then stand on our chair and drop our pen onto the paper. If we got in the center, it was 10 points. If you got a 1,000 points before lunch you could go home. It was great.
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