Oh this is good. I posted this morning on Gen. Ray Odierno claiming that Iran is arming and training and supplying Iraqi Shiite militias in their fight against the U.S. forces. Later on today comes news that the Defense Department cannot locate hundreds of thousands of weapons, such as AK -47s supplied to the Iraqi government.
Nick Childs writes for the BBC:
"The GAO says that, of some 185,000 assault rifles and 170,000 pistols that the Pentagon says it supplied to the Iraqi security forces, it can account for less than half: there is a discrepancy of 110,000 in the case of AK-47s, and 80,000 pistols.
"The gaps in the figures for body armour and helmets are even bigger - only 80,000 out of a total of 215,000 sets of body armour accounted for, and only 25,000 out of 140,000 helmets."
So let's put two and two together. Odierno claims Iran is arming Shiite militias who attack U.S. troops. But the Pentagon admits that it allowed some 165,000 weapons to go "missing." Why then must Iran have anything to do with "arming" and "supplying" Shiite militias. All that supplying and arming is being done by none other than the Pentagon and the Defense Department. There is no reason or necessity to lay the blame on Iran. Put it on those culpable, the generals and the colonels in the Pentagon.
Nick Childs writes for the BBC:
"The GAO says that, of some 185,000 assault rifles and 170,000 pistols that the Pentagon says it supplied to the Iraqi security forces, it can account for less than half: there is a discrepancy of 110,000 in the case of AK-47s, and 80,000 pistols.
"The gaps in the figures for body armour and helmets are even bigger - only 80,000 out of a total of 215,000 sets of body armour accounted for, and only 25,000 out of 140,000 helmets."
So let's put two and two together. Odierno claims Iran is arming Shiite militias who attack U.S. troops. But the Pentagon admits that it allowed some 165,000 weapons to go "missing." Why then must Iran have anything to do with "arming" and "supplying" Shiite militias. All that supplying and arming is being done by none other than the Pentagon and the Defense Department. There is no reason or necessity to lay the blame on Iran. Put it on those culpable, the generals and the colonels in the Pentagon.
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