[Grovenet] Where's the Commander-In-Chief?

[David Morelli]

On Aug 15, 2007, at 8:40 AM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

> "...the Pentagon is accused by US auditors of losing track of  
> 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to the Iraqi  
> security forces,...
> ...
> 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."
> ...
> Ron D'Eau Claire

Ron,

It is the free market at work.  If we provide enough guns and armor,  
then the market will distribute it to the most deserving Iraqis.  We  
don't need the intrusive hand of big government trying to interfere  
with the marketplace.  At least that was the mantra voiced back when  
we invaded.

If you are looking for missing stuff, perhaps we could look for the  
missing 380 tons of high explosives.  Or not, since we do seem to be  
getting it back a pound at a time.  That means we only have to endure  
the road side bombs until they run out.  Let's see, if we only have  
one American casualty per bomb, 760,000 pounds at five pounds per  
bomb, ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,136466,00.html

David