1.0 link 33014 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/iraq-is-now-vietnam_b_33014.html On Monday, October 30th, the lead article in The New York Times reported the United States government had lost track of huge numbers of arms going to Iraq. The case "involv[ed] 19 different contracts and 142 delivery orders," and out of 505,093 individual weapons only 12,128 were "properly recorded," that is, their serial numbers were written down. In addition, some 13,000 weapons were unaccounted for, which included 751 missing M1-F assault rifles and nearly 100 MP-5 machine guns. Also...

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