Cathy F. wrote:
> "Chakolate" <chakolateDeathToSpammers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:Xns9980F39A56753chakolatehotmailcom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_cannot_account_for_190_000_guns__
>> 08012007.html
>>
>> It seems there are 190,000 guns that the US 'presence' in Iraq can't
>> account for. They were given out to Iraqis.
>>
>> (quote)
>> According to the July 31 re****t, the military "cannot fully account for
>> about 110,000 AK-47 assault rifles, 80,000 pistols, 135,000 items of
body
>> armour and 115,000 helmets re****ted as issued to Iraqi forces."
>> (end of quote)
>>
>> One. Hundred. Ten. Thousand. AK-47s.
>
> A similar re****t came out a few months ago; I don't remember the
numbers,
> but basically the same thing - thousands of weapons unaccounted for - no
> paperwork to trace them.
>
> IOW - no hand in the air.
Maybe the weapons are with the $8.1 billion of missing cash...
(Did they ever find the cash? Its absence was noted almost three
years ago. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0821-01.htm
)
FurPaw, finding hand weighted down and dragging, impossible to raise.
--
"Every gun that is made, every war****p launched,
every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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