So the General Accounting Office is reporting our military has lost almost 200,000 weapons in Iraq since the start of the war and occupation. Presumably these are weapons given to Iraqi military and police personnel as we train them. These personnel then leave the military or the police, join their local militia, and use the training and weapons they got from us to kill and maim our soldiers.
Apparently this is part of Bush's plan to "fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here." After all, what better way to dissuade Iraqis from taking an American vacation than to train them, equip them and then paint bull's-eyes on the backs of our boys and girls?
Seriously, this is just another example of the old Republican mantra -- that government is incompetent -- becoming a self-fulfilling prophesy. They claim government is the problem and then go about proving it by their bad governing, time and again. Why the American public continues to elect leaders who seem intent on screwing things up is beyond me. Oh yeah, I forgot: we didn't really elect Bush, he was appointed King by the Supreme Court. My bad.
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