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."..............

i think it's important we ALL read the words of sgt jim wilt

In Article, Soldier Urges That Troops Be Honored Like Virginia Tech Dead

KABUL, Afghanistan An Army sergeant complained in a rare opinion article that the U.S. flag flew at half-staff last week at the largest U.S. base in Afghanistan for those killed at Virginia Tech but the same honor is not given to fallen U.S. troops here and in Iraq.In the article issued Monday by the public affairs office at Bagram military base north of Kabul, Sgt. Jim Wilt lamented that his comrades' deaths have become a mere blip on the TV screen, lacking the "shock factor" to be honored by the Stars and Stripes as the deaths at Virginia Tech were."I find it ironic that the flags were flown at half-staff for the young men and women who were killed at VT, yet it is never lowered for the death of a U.S. service member," Wilt wrote.
He noted that Bagram obeyed President Bush's order last week that all U.S. flags at federal locations be flown at half-staff through April 22 to honor 32 people killed at Virginia Tech by a 23-year-old student gunman who then killed himself."I think it is sad that we do not raise the bases' flag to half-staff when a member of our own task force dies," Wilt said.............