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Quote by: xyzer  The missing weapons report is ridiculous also? It suggests that the USA is supposed to keep an inventory of the weapons IT HAS GIVEN to the Iraqi forces? Nonsense!
Did we expect the Iraqis tio give them back? Did the GAO account for damaged and destroyed weapons? Its just another press driven attempt to sensationalize news. |
The Defense Department recorded 10,000 serial numbers out of 370,251 weapons. Why bother recording the 10,000?
Thousands of U.S. weapons in Iraq missing - USATODAY.com
Why shouldn't we have kept a complete inventory of the weapons we gave to other countries? Oh wait, because it so much easier to lose 200,000 guns when we don't keep records of them. Now it makes sense...
Let's go to the trouble of manufacturing, purchasing, packaging, shipping, and distributing them and then not keep an accurate record of where they went. Now I suppose we should send 200,000 more guns to make up for the missing ones and maybe 100,000 of those will go missing.