according to general petraeus

the SUN was in their (the bookkeeper's) eyes! the dog ate my homework. i was late cause i had a flat tire (well on monday i actually DID by the way. and guess what, i had to get FOUR new tires, not just one. it was NOT a good day). at any rate, i didn't 'lose' 190,000 weapons. oh, one more thing. if the government is telling us it's 190,000 what do you think the number REALLY is? think about that one

by the way i'm almost starting to feel sorry dor petraeus. the crap they make him say. sort of like tony snow. it's ALL crap

General Blames Clerical Errors In the Case of Missing Arms


By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer

Bookkeeping deficiencies allowed thousands of weapons issued to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005 to then go missing, Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said yesterday.
"Some percentage" of weapons the U.S. military provided to the Iraqi army and Iraqi police units were not tracked by serial number because there were no procedures in place to do so within the Iraqi units, Petraeus said in an interview to be broadcast last night on Fox News Radio's "Alan Colmes Show."
From a practical standpoint, Petraeus added, it was more important to get the weapons to the Iraqis as they started to enter the fight against a strong insurgency than it was to keep meticulous records.
"We occasionally likened it to building the world's largest aircraft while in flight and while being shot at," the general said. "But we gradually started putting those procedures into place."..............