this is novel

we can't keep track of all the money we're spending (on killing and maiming and destroying) because we're spending TOO FUCKING MUCH??????????????

how's THAT for an excuse? is this april 1st again?

if people weren't being killed and if people weren't starving to death and if children weren't being raped and on and on and on, this WOULD be funny

Report: Billions in defense spending unchecked

By ANNE FLAHERTY The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Pentagon auditors say billions of dollars in military spending is going unchecked because they are having trouble keeping pace with the ever-expanding defense budget and combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In a recent report, the Defense Department inspector general estimates that nearly half of the military's $316 billion weapons budget went unchecked last year because the IG's office lacked the manpower. Whereas 10 years ago when a single auditor would have reviewed some $642 million in defense contracts, individual investigators are now charged with auditing more than $2 billion in spending.
The IG also has been stretching its staff to investigate corruption and fraud cases overseas, primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan where the military is hiring contractors to help run operations. ...........

QUESTION: how does one lose SIX GARBAGE TRUCKS?

answer: AX THE US ARMY

US Army loses another 12,000 guns and trucks

IAN BRUCE, Defence Correspondent
The US military in Iraq has lost track of another 12,000 weapons, including more than 800 machine-guns, and everything from 2100 new electricity generators to half a dozen garbage trucks...........

.........Six modern garbage trucks from a delivery of 18 on Baghdad's rubbish-strewn streets could not be located. They were valued at £350,000. The auditors said that the Multi-National Security Command Iraq could not give reasonable assurance that money for the Iraqi forces was being used properly and properly protected from "waste and mismanagement"..............