Here's a coincidentally incongruous Google News snapshot, from that story about all those weapons that we shipped to Iraq and have since disappeared:
190000 US-supplied guns unaccounted for
MSNBC - 3 hours ago
By Demetri Sevastopulo
in Washington The Pentagon cannot account for 190000 guns provided to the Iraqi security forces - raising concerns that insurgents ...
Pentagon to Tighten Tracking of Weapons for Iraq
Voice of America -- 6 hours ago
By Al Pessin
A report from the US Government Accountability Office says tens of thousands of rifles, pistols and other items sent to Iraq are unaccounted ...
Quite a discrepancy! But let's get to the real discrepancy, the one the GAO dug up and which shows that a third of all weapons we provided to train Iraqi forces have disappeared. I guess it's beating a dead horse to point how, yet again, every operational and logistical aspect of the Iraqi war has been executed poorly. The loss of that many weapons would be absolutely outrageous if it weren't for Fiasco Fatigue. Remember in 2004, right before the election, and there was story about how a big weapons cache during the early, invasion phase of the Iraq war had not been secured, potentially providing munitions for what became the insurgency? That was news. People thought it meant something. Three years later, with the thorough incompetence of the administration clear to all sentient beings, the grip of Fiasco Fatigue turns all information to mush. Nothing means anything any more. Now, you hear about 190,000 weapons missing, just the kind of weapons of use to the sectarian groups fighting us and each other and turning Iraq into a mess, and all you can do is shrug your shoulders and say, "Well, another one for the fuck-up pile!" By the way, the VOA story, after carefully pointing out that no one knows if the weapons are in the hands of Iraqi insurgents but not suggesting an alternative destination for all the explosive booty, does provide a key point missed by MSBNC. When the guns went missing, the VOA reports, guess who was in charge of them? That's right: General David Petraeus.