"What they say is not what they do!.."


Word leaked out that something like 190,000 Russian submachine guns got lost and are presumed in the hands of the enemy. So, we shrug our shoulders. But it doesn’t end that easily.. The other day, there was a report of a Christian pastor in Turkey shot during prayers by a teenager with a Glock. He had a grudge against the west. This has happened on at least three other occasions—all of the incidents involving Glocks.
An investigation of serial numbers revealed that these Glocks were supposed to go to the Iraqi forces and were supplied by the US. Turkish officials have reported that there is evidence that at least 20,000 Glocks are on the Turkish black market and they have been supplied by the US.. These weapons have a street value of at up to 3,500 dollars.

A little backtracking has revealed that these weapons were being distributed by those working for independent subcontractors to Iraqi forces.

Clearly, the subcontractors were not too meticulous with their distribution and in some cases kicked weapons “enough for two battalions” out the back door of their Globemasters in areas being fought over by Iraqis purportedly aligned with us…….

Why bother, since they are operating on ‘no-bid’ contracts that nobody’s going to check anyway.

Oversight and control are dead issues in this War….


Armored vehicles: We also learn that the reason these new armored vehicles were not manufactured or shipped already to Iraq was because the military planners at the Pentagon thought that this war was an anomaly; that in other wars, we wouldn’t be up against these IUD’s; however, we’re discovering that they are already showing up in Pakistan, Southeast Asia, Thailand, and other countries….

It was it seemed a few choice words by Gates that changed the priority.
He had asked whether Army blood was as important as Marine blood (The Marines had ordered these vehicles!)….

With mistake after mistake and incalculable risk to our GI’s, this war has demonstrated
What we already know: That the protection of our military is not this government’s first priority. And “what they say, is not what they do!”


They should have listened to Powell in the first place.


Les Aaron