Buy Your Weapons in Iraq!

[PatrickHenry]

It's an open market, there in Baghdad:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/wo...html?th&emc=th

The answers came Sunday from the inspector general’s office, which found major discrepancies in American military records on where thousands of 9-millimeter pistols and hundreds of assault rifles and other weapons have ended up. The American military did not even take the elementary step of recording the serial numbers of nearly half a million weapons provided to Iraqis, the inspector general found, making it impossible to track or identify any that might be in the wrong hands. Exactly where untracked weapons could end up — and whether some have been used against American soldiers — were not examined in the report, although black-market arms dealers thrive on the streets of Baghdad, and official Iraq Army and police uniforms can easily be purchased as well, presumably because government shipments are intercepted or otherwise corrupted.

Let me get this straight...The US taxpayer buys weapons to give to Iraqis, who then sell them on the streets of Baghdad to all comers, for CASH?

What a mess...

[Osborn F Enready]

Dont forget we also TOOK AWAY all of their weapons, when we went in and attempted to establish "order".

Don't forget also, these weapons are usually sold to dealers from around the world to be bought and sold on the private market in all nations, or the black market if no legal markets exist.

YET, we are supposed to trust them to "protect us" from un-registered weapons.......as they seek to remove ours.

Anyone find this funny yet? :rolleyes:

[RickSp]

Quote by: Osborn F Enready Dont forget we also TOOK AWAY all of their weapons, when we went in and attempted to establish "order".

Actually every family was allowed to keep one assault weapon.

This latest fiasco just blends in with all the rest.