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August 17, 2007
Show me the money... the AK-47s...and the Orange Juice
There was barely a ripple in the national newspapers, and Internet sources, a few weeks ago when we learned the United States "lost" $3 billion of the money doled out to the Iraqi Provisional Government.
Gone. No Record.
Not even a doggie diner receipt: "$3 billion. In exchange for four scrambled eggs, toast and orange juice. No bacon. (Pig meat no good in Bagdad)."
A US spokesman tried to explain the missing cash: "We were in a hurry to get the money to the Iraqi people."
Yesterday, newspaper articles reported the US also "lost" some 145,000 AK-47 assault rifles and Glock hand guns, intended to arm the Iraqi Security Forces.
No record of where the arms went or who received them.
One shipment of about 30,000 weapons reportedly left a US Army base in Germany, loaded aboard a hugh transport by charted air, scheduled to land in Bagdad.
The plane never arrived -- disappeared without a trace.
Some might see an upside.
Those assault rifles and hand guns never reached our 'allies' in the Iraqi Security Forces.
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