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US "Loses" $500 Million In Weapons Given To Yemen, Now In Al-Qaeda Hands

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Nobody could have possibly foreseen that yet another US foreign diplomacy "success story" would turn out to be an epic disaster. Well, nobody, except for those who accurately predict that every US intervention abroad is now a staggering fiasco (for everyone involved except the US military-industrial complex of course). As for Yemen, the outcome was clear long ago:

And, naturally, after noting that "the employees said that more than 20 vehicles were taken by the fighters after the Americans departed from Sanaa's airport" we asked how long until we have a "tabulation of losses to US taxpayers, just like the great Islamic State 'robbery' of hundreds of millions in US military equipment in Iraq?" That, of course, was another epic US intervention success story.

Anyway, thanks to WaPo we have an answer: according to Jeff Bezos' recent media acquisition, "the Pentagon is unable to account for more than $500 million in U.S. military aid given to Yemen."

Obviously, "can't account for" means "has lost." But while the US does not know where nearly half a billion in weapons can be found, it is more than informed who is the current owner: there are "fears that the weaponry, aircraft and equipment is at risk of being seized by Iranian-backed rebels or al-Qaeda, according to U.S. officials."

And just like that, America's now laughable, pathetic foreign policy has not only resulted in another US-supported administration to be exiled or worse, but is has directly armed the adversary. And to think it was only 6 months ago when the Teleprompter in Chief was praising the "Yemen success story." From Obama's Statement on ISIL as of September 10, 2014:

Now, it will take time to eradicate a cancer like ISIL.  And any time we take military action, there are risks involved –- especially to the servicemen and women who carry out these missions.  But I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil.  This counterterrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out ISIL wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground.  This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years.  And it is consistent with the approach I outlined earlier this year:  to use force against anyone who threatens America’s core interests, but to mobilize partners wherever possible to address broader challenges to international order.

Some may find it odd then, that 6 months later this "strategy" has been flipped on its head, and the Obama administration is taking out its partners (in Yemen), while supporting the terrorists who threaten us.

But almost everyone will say this was obvious from day one.

Here is what else was obvious:

With Yemen in turmoil and its government splintering, the Defense Department has lost its ability to monitor the whereabouts of small arms, ammunition, night-vision goggles, patrol boats, vehicles and other supplies donated by the United States. The situation has grown worse since the United States closed its embassy in Sanaa, the capital, last month and withdrew many of its military advisers.

 

U.S. firearms supplied to the Interior Ministry in Yemen, which has
received
$500 million in aid from the United States since 2007 under an
array of
Defense Department and State Department programs. (GAO)


In recent weeks, members of Congress have held closed-door meetings with U.S. military officials to press for an accounting of the arms and equipment. Pentagon officials have said that they have little information to go on and that there is little they can do at this point to prevent the weapons and gear from falling into the wrong hands.

 

“We have to assume it’s completely compromised and gone,” said a legislative aide on Capitol Hill who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

 

* * *

 

Washington has supplied more than $500 million in military aid to Yemen since 2007 under an array of Defense Department and State Department programs. The Pentagon and CIA have provided additional assistance through classified programs, making it difficult to know exactly how much Yemen has received in total.

Below is a graphic representation of all the equipment that has been "misplaced."

Another day for the US State Department under John Kerry, another day of endless embarrassment.

U.S. military officials declined to comment for the record. A defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the Pentagon, said there was no hard evidence that U.S. arms or equipment had been looted or confiscated. But the official acknowledged that the Pentagon had lost track of the items.

 

“Even in the best-case scenario in an unstable country, we never have 100 percent accountability,” the defense official said.

It gets better:

U.S. government officials say al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen poses a more direct threat to the U.S. homeland than any other terrorist group. To counter it, the Obama administration has relied on a combination of proxy forces and drone strikes launched from bases outside the country.

And now it is relying on an even more radical strategy: arming al-Qaeda directly.

But the absolute punchline is the way the US government justifies this most recent fiasco:

Although the loss of weapons and equipment already delivered to Yemen would be embarrassing, U.S. officials said it would be unlikely to alter the military balance of power there. Yemen is estimated to have the second-highest gun ownership rate in the world, ranking behind only the United States, and its bazaars are well stocked with heavy weaponry. Moreover, the U.S. government restricted its lethal aid to small firearms and ammunition, brushing aside Yemeni requests for fighter jets and tanks.

See, it's no biggie that US taxpayers are half a bill out of pocket: the Yemen branch of Al-Qaeda was already armed to the teeth anyway, peace out.

Up next? US-trained Ukraine troops with ultra-modern equipment mysteriously defect, and end up in the Russian army?

The winner? The US Military Industrial Complex, because as General Sline said in Spies Like Us, "a weapon unused is a useless weapon." And if there is anything the US military-industrial complex is good at, it is exporting war first courtesy of the CIA operating the in the shadows of incompetent figureheads like Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, followed promptly - like in this case - by arms to fight it (while HSBC, JPM and others provide the funding).

 

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Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:02 | 5918820 Chupacabra-322
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All done by design, all done by agenda.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:03 | 5918843 Seek_Truth
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Indeed. Hence the "" around the word loses.

Who's your Daddy, Al-CIA-duh? Who's your Daddy, ISIS?

Lots of "losses" and "oops" lately, too many to count.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:06 | 5918855 ratso
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Much more likely the weapons ae in the hands of the Shia who are enemies of elQaeda.  No proof that el Qaeda has the weapons.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:08 | 5918878 Sanity Bear
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None of this is difficult to explain if you start with the understanding that Al Qaeda, ISIS, and all the other FUD-inspiring "terror" groups are Western psyops. How better to supply them with massive amounts of arms than to let them be captured in highly predictable and avoidable circumstances?

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:15 | 5918918 Chupacabra-322
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Hence, plausible deniability

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:16 | 5918924 McMolotov
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There's no question at this point that Uncle Sam rides the short bus. But it remains to be seen whether he's an incompetent Simple Jack retard or a secret genius Rain Man retard.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:28 | 5918966 Thirst Mutilator
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Somewhere... Kr[JEW]gman is dancing on top of a van [upon hearing this news]...

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:31 | 5918996 TeamDepends
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Looks like we have no choice but to cease White House tours until we recoup the loss.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:33 | 5919003 wee-weed up
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Another clusterfuck brought to you by the prestigious Obama-Kerry School of International Diplomacy.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:34 | 5919010 gmrpeabody
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Somebody PLEASE get these clowns out of the WhiteHouse...

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:41 | 5919031 Thirst Mutilator
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This can EASILY be corrected...

 

Let's just DOUBLE it [& give a BILLION to the Apartheid State of Israel to help correct the 'accident']...

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:03 | 5919125 cheech_wizard
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>This can EASILY be corrected...

By drone strikes on the White House? Or the Federal Reserve?

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:06 | 5919138 ilion
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This pretty much sums it all up: https://soundcloud.com/olav-nurk-1/midnight-blues

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:08 | 5919146 Bunghole
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They muzzies can keep those plastic Glocks.

I want the Sig P226s.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:13 | 5919174 Took Red Pill
Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:27 | 5919223 Thirst Mutilator
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@Bunghole ~ no JUNK... [but I'd be a 'peaceful' dissenter here]...

 

I'll take the GLOCK anytime, anywhere...

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:36 | 5919272 Bunghole
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I'm not knocking a Glock.  They feed all day every day.

I'm just not a fan of polymer pistols.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:08 | 5919381 RU-GAY2
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We just sent ISIS another 2.48 BTC.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:19 | 5919426 3.7.77
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"Donated by the United States", I don't remember okaying this....

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:52 | 5919530 Money Boo Boo
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to fabricate bullshit fictitious wars one first needs a capable enemy with capable equipment, supplied as needed by the CIA

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 19:06 | 5919783 negative rates
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Remember, it's half our fault just for making the things, and don't tell me alquida was going to make those weapons either.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 05:33 | 5920928 gold-is-not-dead
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Why people still call them al qaeda or isis? That's wrong, correct term is CIA, MOSAD, MI6

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqn0bm4E9yw

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:13 | 5919176 winchester
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this info is 4 days old..

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:14 | 5919403 max2205
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Was there a map also with directions to Syria? 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 18:38 | 5919693 Fun Facts
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Amid the systemic corruption, they can say anything they want and get away with it.

It's pretty sad, really.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 19:07 | 5919791 negative rates
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Tunnels only, plus there is a line a mile long for hand shovels.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 19:14 | 5919817 weburke
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ALL those weapons are RFID chipped, finding is a breeze. In fact it is impossible to lose them ! 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 21:33 | 5920302 SmackDaddy
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lol, hope they remembered to put the batteries in this time...

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:19 | 5919163 macholatte
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... and NOBODY thought to disable any of that stuff?

.... and the "Undelivered" will probably be delivered once the Pentagon gets a forwarding address.

 

This is why most people can't handle being informed.  It's too frustrating.

 

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Plato

 

Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated.

George Will

 

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

William J. Clinton

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:08 | 5920399 Tarzan
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"This is why most people can't handle being informed.  It's too frustrating."

Exactly why I stopped talking about this stuff around my wife, not that she doesn't believe it, just that she can't wrap her head around why, and what to do about it.

When first presented with the facts we all start by cry out why would they, and how stupid they must be, but then it begins to sink in just how stupid they would have to be and unspeakable questions begin creeping in.  Your eyes are not truely open until you give in to the fact that they're not stupid they're EVIL, against the people, and they're DOING IT ON PURPOSE.  Only then does what they're doing begin to make sense.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:19 | 5919199 dcohen
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How about Congress?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 00:29 | 5920697 toxic8
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The Farce continues.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 14:18 | 5922355 mkkby
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How do you lose a patrol boat?  ISIS is a sea power now, or more likely some CIA agent sailed off for his retirement.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:35 | 5919013 knukles
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"I read about it on ESPN... er, I mean the newspaper"

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:58 | 5920627 RockyRacoon
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Where's the problem?  Arm both sides, sit back and watch.  Problem goes away.  Too exhausted or decimated to roam about the globe bothering decent folk.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:36 | 5919014 Divided States ...
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500mn missing but more likely given away in order to have more reasons to produce 5bn worth more to try to retrieve the 500mn back...good strategy there US of A.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:46 | 5919051 new game
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so as incompetent as the gov.org is, it wouldn't suprise me one bit if the undelivered weapons go straight to alkada or is...

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:11 | 5919162 Crash Overide
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500 million is a drop in the bucket compared to the 2 trillion Rumsfeld couldn't account for shortly before 9/11.

Shit, even Hilary racked up 6 billion in unaccounted State Department funds.

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 18:58 | 5919757 tenpanhandle
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Oh, Okay then; no problemo.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 03:47 | 5920854 Tall Tom
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I guess then I should not remind you about Hurricane Sandy flooding the New York Financial District and...they really have no clue as to the true owners of bonds and stocks.

 

Everything has been make believe.

 

What is so funny is that..that...that you guys think  that anything is real.

 

One Half Billion?

 

Really it is nothing. Really. I mean that.

 

LMAO.

 

I wonder when everybody is going to realize that all of the trading since that point has been NAKED.

 

Yes. The King actually has no clothes.

 

Continue onward.

 

What is next in fantasy land today?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 08:16 | 5921112 Refuse-Resist
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Fight On Vaquero!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 21:54 | 5920365 turnoffthewater
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The inept US defense dept "Loses" $500 Million In Weapons Given To Yemen which the taxpayers are on the hook for.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:17 | 5920423 Tarzan
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"INEPT"?  Are they really?  I get so sick of people calling Obama and the rest stupid or inept!  These are fucking harvard grads!  they're not stupid.  Believing all this crap is done by mistake is stupid!  Believing the military lost the weapons or dropped them in the wrong neighborhood or didn't forsee the fall of Yemen is the only thing stupid.

It's about time we realized that these are not just bumbling idiots in washington.  There are ENEMIES in the camp and THEY ARE DOING IT ON PURPOSE!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 08:38 | 5921171 Pumpkin
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Tarzan hits the nail on the head here.  When evil genius is mistaken for incompetence, the stupidity is in the mirror.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:34 | 5919007 knukles
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Looks like this was what "He" meant when he said Mission Accomplished*

*actually, I think he said it twice about Yemen.  Or was that Iraq?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 01:58 | 5920780 Placerville
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Dude, you stole my avatar.

 

Credit WB7

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:34 | 5919009 Max Steel
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That's how US economy rolls . Supply weapons to regime worth millions . Let them loose it . It's a cycle . Inflation must rise!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:27 | 5918968 PartysOver
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Everytime I think there is no way it can get worse, it does.  Proof positive that Ivy Leaguers in Gov't is a very bad idea.

And how in hell do you lose a CN 235?  Those things are rather large.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:34 | 5919008 McMolotov
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How in hell do you lose $2.3 trillion? That's a rather large amount of money, but we're not supposed to ask such questions.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 19:09 | 5919797 negative rates
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Just wait your time out, the truth will be exposed half way between here, and there.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 19:53 | 5919971 countryboy42
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That's only 2.3 platinum coins. I told them to make them bigger. Start checking the couches in the Pentagon.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 08:17 | 5921113 Refuse-Resist
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You schedule a meeting for Tuesday, 9/11/01 in the part of the Pentagon that you  know will be destroyed by explosives, with all the key investigative staff, and you tell them to bring all their records.

 

BOOM! and it's gone.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:26 | 5918969 ShorTed
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Simple Jack Retard

Rain Man Retard

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:27 | 5918971 NoDebt
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Have you ever seen a 'terrorist' carrying an M4 (M16) or rolling up in a Humvee?  Nope.  They carry AK47s (because they actually work in dirty environments) and drive white Toyota pickups with a machine gun mounted to the bed.

Which begs the question.... what do they do with this shit?  Sell it? 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:30 | 5918992 new game
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decoys!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:49 | 5919062 Paveway IV
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Who cares what they do with this shit? 

Better in their hands then in the hands of the terrorists that most directly threaten me: the local cops playing Soldier of Fortune wanna-be or the DHS Stazi. 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:44 | 5919047 TeethVillage88s
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Confiscate it, Seize it as Ill-gotten Gains, then take it to the market place to sell for operating cash.

It's under the Mission Statement and Objectives called Strategies and Goals.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:45 | 5919304 TheReplacement
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If you have the weapons, kit, and ride of your enemy you can infiltrate...

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:07 | 5920389 logically possible
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All of this equipment has a theft protection device that creates a massive explosion when it hears the words wedding party in any foreign language.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:30 | 5918991 mtndds
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Ooops!! Transitoy, BULLISH!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:49 | 5919063 Cynicles
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Uncle Sam is driving the short bus.

We the Sheeple are passengers.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:14 | 5919178 Anusocracy
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Uncle Obama is driving the short bus by way of the rear-view mirror.

The sheeple aren't smart enough to know they're on the bus.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 03:52 | 5920864 Tall Tom
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The rest of us, the ones not riding, have been thrown under the bus.

 

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:15 | 5918922 Cognitive Dissonance
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How to arm your 'enemy' and not die while trying.

<Anyone who thinks this is an accident should call me about buying an inexpensive bridge.>

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:28 | 5918981 NoVa
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Oblamo is happier than eva that weapons are now in those dirty hands.

But he is sad that the story & facts got published.

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:32 | 5919002 new game
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hey! now we have a legite reason to fight ;to get back our weapons.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:46 | 5919050 NoVa
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notice the "Not Yet Delivered" comment for armenents?  

I hope Hillary burns for her treason - 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 19:37 | 5919905 thebigunit
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and all the other FUD-inspiring "terror" groups are Western psyops.

Zero Hedge is pretty darn FUD-inspiring.

Isn't it obvious that ZH is a Western psyop?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 07:05 | 5921003 Grimaldus
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@SB  Ahhh that would be giving far to much credit to the progressive idiots in charge. What we have here is classic progressive stupidity.

You see, progressives are oh so willing to bend over and spread cheeks for Islam. Look at how Al Qaeda duped Hillary Clinton into rescuing them from Gaddafi at Benghazi. It's the same stupid pattern over and over. Half of Obirdbrain's regime is Islamist activists. The same stupid progressive pattern---bend over for Islamic tyranny, they can't help it. The stupid, it burns!

And how come nobody's asking about the 6 BILLION unaccounted for that Hillary Clinton lost while SecState?

http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/03/while-clinton-hid-emails-6-billion-wen...

There is a REASON Hillary hid her emails.....like 6 billion of them.....

Grimaldus

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:10 | 5918885 NoDebt
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How the world now views the United States:  Monkey fucking a football.

We used to give this shit away and THEN our 'allies' (often referred to as 'freedom fighters') would turn against us.  Now they just take shit from us.  It may not sound like it matters much since the end result is the same, but believe me, it sets the wrong tone.  It's just poor form.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:11 | 5919156 chunga
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I just got through listening to a bunch of neo-tards explain that, like it or not, Merika's enemies are going to keep on hating us for our freedoms no matter what we do. So their logic was that "we " have no choice but to do shit like this...all the time...because we're "adults"! If we stop..."all hell will break loose".

Tyler sums it up pretty good:

Nobody could have possibly foreseen that yet another US foreign diplomacy "success story" would turn out to be an epic disaster. Well, nobody, except for those who accurately predict that every US intervention abroad is now a staggering fiasco (for everyone involved except the US military-industrial complex of course)

Bombs Away!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:48 | 5919320 Grimaldus
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PROGRESSIVES are in charge and HAVE BEEN for awhile now. Make no mistake, you are witnessing progressive foreign policy at it's "finest".

Neo-tards climb right on board the progressive murder wagon because they are twisted to the LEFT. DUH!

Constitutional conservatives would have not been involved in other sovereign nations affairs. You want non-interventionism? Then you want constitutional conservatives who will keep the money at home and in the taxpayers pockets where it belongs.

Progressive drones and assclowns can't seem to wrap their minds around the fact that THEY themselves and their messiah are the bloody murdering interventionists. You know it when you see them blaming "neo-XXXX".

Moron progressive assclowns, embrace your progressive suck or STFU.

Grimaldus

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:17 | 5919415 The Chief
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I feel like Richard Dreyfuss's character in Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind after he realizes the nerve gas is fake and they are questioning him the military HQ trailer...

Hold it, hold it, hold it.
Is that it?
Is that all you're going to ask me?
I got a couple of thousand goddamn questions!!
I want to speak to someone in charge!
I want to lodge a complaint!
You have no right to make people crazy.
You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is?
lf this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail?
I've never been here before.
How come I know so much?
What the hell is going on around here?!

WHO THE HELL ARE YOU PEOPLE!!!??

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:13 | 5918895 Pool Shark
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Looking at the top, right-hand photo of shotguns in the rack; I think the rebels were simply taking Biden's advice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEsaXk6Sc3k

 

Per Joe's suggestion: can we now expect them all to walk out on their balconies and fire two warnings blasts in the air?...

 

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:18 | 5918934 TrumpXVI
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I'm thinkin' 3 remy 870s in the front, the other 10 look like mossy 500/590s

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:24 | 5918938 BLOTTO
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'They' cant find $500 Million worth of weapons, boats, vehicles, equipment - but they can sure find $10 you misplaced on your yearly income tax.

.

'They' want to fly to Mars - but can't set up a trial run on the moon.

.

'They' want to mine a fucking asteroid - but some poor soul 10,000 miles away doesnt even have a glass of clean drinking water.

.

WHAT in the FUCK...arrghhhhhhhh

.

Im mad...again.

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:36 | 5919015 new game
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bout time, was wondering if ya have a puls4e. i hear ya loud and clear. fucking bozzo ass mutha fucking dumb numb fucks...

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:48 | 5919057 FallenOne
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Mining asteroids is so 1980's you martian moron lol. No wonder they see you as dumb prey animals; they have mining ops on entire planets now bud!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:06 | 5919139 cheech_wizard
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Mining asteroids is passe. They need to be pushed out of orbit, and sent hurtling to earth. That way you can get rid of excess population and mine the debris later.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:34 | 5919260 Lostinfortwalton
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NASA is a spending machine, they don't care if anything goes up or not except for the PR value. They could put a rocket on a barge and drop it in the Marianas Trench an be equally happy. Of course Muslim outreach is their no. 1 priority as directed by our quite insane president.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:27 | 5919454 trulz4lulz
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Two birds, one stone indeed......

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:31 | 5919461 Steaming_Wookie_Doo
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Yup, spot on. Someone once said that finance was the act of deciding what society would work on. Look what we spend on. Our "allocators of capital" want us to fight each other, or starve and die--er, after you've built them their yachts and harvested their food. Labels of Shia, Al Qaeda, etc are a minor distraction. The real terrorists are the money allocators.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:51 | 5919327 lost money
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don't interject facts into the USA bashing zh narraive, it causes ZHer heads to explode

the meme is the USA is stupid and its all the fault of the joooooossssss

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:53 | 5919084 Groundhog Day
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They will even support the products for manufacuters defaults and give training webinars on how to use them just so we can get the show on the road

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:55 | 5919542 loregnum
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Except the write up implies that this isn't by design and it is just incompetent people in charge.

Seems clear to me all these "losses" and "mistakes" are simply how they want it to be and the people in charge have no problem looking like incompetent fools to the gullible sheeple to get their little CIA created and run terrorist groups the weapons and supplies under the radar.

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 03:54 | 5920850 russwinter
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To quote Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys, if you believe this "lost", misplaced storytelling you should be shaved, sterialized and destroyed.

Let me guess the calculus: 80% to CIA-Mossad backed ISIS/ISIL and stooge flavors of the day, and 15% to crime syndicate arms dealers for their commission, and 5% to Rita Katz's beheading videos hoax fund. 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:04 | 5918844 Ignatius
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Yeah, the "oops" excuse raised to a high art.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:14 | 5918916 Groundhog Day
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Have to fund both sides of a war you know

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:14 | 5918911 raywolf
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first we create a vacuum, then we fill that vacuum, as a popular war advances, peace seems closer....

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:32 | 5918999 f16hoser
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Exactly. A drone goes down in Afghanistan, a B-1 blows it up within minutes. These weapons will be used in Syria/Ukraine. This Story is getting long in the tooth. If it's not by design, then we either got our Ass Kicked in Yemen or our troops are completely incompetent.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:41 | 5919028 lester1
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THAT'S 500 AMERICAN SCHOOLS WE COULD HAVE RENOVATED AND PUT PEOPLE TO WORK !!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:10 | 5919391 j0nx
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Yet YOU are not to be trusted with a squirrel gun according to these sociopaths. Hmm.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:25 | 5919438 junction
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Those night vision binoculars, built with the most expensive starlight scopes around, are great for use in carrying out assassinations, even better than nail guns.  Those binoculars will probbaly play a role in the next Sandy Hook type false flag operation sanctioned by our Manchurian Candidate in the Oval Office.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 19:12 | 5919804 MauiJeff
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The military industrial complex makes more money when they arm both sides.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 19:23 | 5919842 HardAssets
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O.K. - give me a few Glocks and M4s, some night vision goggles, a Humvee, and a hand launched drone - and I'll never complain about the government again.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 00:38 | 5920710 cornflakesdisease
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Like all those 185 Toyota Tundra's with the blackwater package purchased from Toyota in San Antonio, Texas, complete with plastic laminated ISiS stencils on the doors, hood, and on the front of the machine gun gaurds and shipped to Jordan about a year and a half ago?

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:02 | 5918832 drendebe10
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Another foreign policy success by the incompetent, corrupt arrogant narcissitic illegal alien pathologic liar fudgepacker....

"Governtment isn't the solution to our problem.  Government is the problem."  R. Reagan

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:36 | 5919267 The Paucity of Hope
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... who worked very hard to prove it.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:03 | 5918838 Rock and Hard Space
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So taking away our ability to use cash is going to stop this?

bwaaahaaahaaaa.

Man us sheeple are pretty stupid if we keep buying these naratives

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:03 | 5918839 Bangin7GramRocks
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ZOINKS!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:03 | 5918842 davidalan1
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Our war on terror...lol --supply them, sounds about right..

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:18 | 5918937 Rainman
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....and it's been going on for decades

             http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/sigar-afghanistan-us-weapons-wind-up-insurgents

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:04 | 5918849 ratso
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No proof that al Qaeda has the weapons.  It is much more likely they are in the hands of the Shia who are enemies of el Qaeda.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:10 | 5918887 Omen IV
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probably ends up in Ukraine along with South Korean tanks recently reported

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:13 | 5918900 Bankster Kibble
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Which means they will end up in the hands of the Novorussians in a couple of weeks.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:05 | 5918854 KnuckleDragger-X
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When I was a poor lieutenant I had to account for every little piece of government property my people had. If only I had been a 3 or 4 star general.......

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:15 | 5918923 Bastiat
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Get up a little higher and you can loose track of $trillions.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 02:10 | 5920788 Kirk2NCC1701
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That's because you were 'sponsible for the Known Knowns.

Had you been in charge of the Unknown Unknowns...

Trillion dollar checks, baby!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:06 | 5918856 swass
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Can we please finally arrest our government for treason and criminal negligence?

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:28 | 5918881 Ignatius
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The native American Splitting The Sky asked Canadian authorities to arrest the Bush-whacker for war crimes when he visited Canada.  When the police laughed and refused, he asked them to please step aside as he would arrest Bush himself.  That's when they threw him to the ground.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:59 | 5919076 TradingTroll
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Splitting Sky: Died/suicided when the concrete path he was walking on jumped up and bashed his head in. http://www.vancouversun.com/Native+peace+activist+John+Boncore+found+dea...

 

And don't even get me started on Wendy Ladner-Beaudry, for whose murder police are still seeking a motive!

http://globalnews.ca/news/1246258/five-years-since-murder-of-wendy-ladne...

Gees, lets see, a few months prior her husband, Peter, disclosed the secret deal with Fortress Investments to build Vancouver's Olympic Village and created $500m of debt for Vancouver in the process when Fortress went $500m over budget and refused to pny up a dime.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-seeks-charter-c...

http://www.geoffmeggs.ca/2009/03/25/peck-offers-first-insider-account-of...

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 20:17 | 5920063 I am a Man I am...
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don't worry folks, just a matter of time and Hillary or Jeb will straighten this shit out.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 02:28 | 5920804 Kirk2NCC1701
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You're a real idealist.

Had you been a pragmatist, you'd have asked "When can the DOD show the same level of incompetence at home and "donate" a few hundred tons of arms to the rable rousers?"

But, for that to happen, you first need a few hundred armed and pissed Americans to take them on. And I don't mean "Armed with a keyboard and a sharp tongue".

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:06 | 5918857 escapeefromOZ
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The Pnetagon a bunch of highly paid incompetent people . A few years ago the lost track of a couple of trillions ......ah,ah,ah,  

Their disasters are my joy . Schadenfraude !

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:12 | 5919167 cossack55
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At least they had the sense to have invisible aircraft hit the office where the investigation was beginning on 9/11.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:06 | 5918859 Farmer Joe in B...
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Success!!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:06 | 5918860 YouThePeople
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Lost? More like sold to. With this regime never mistake ineptitude for criminal corruption and traiterism/treason.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:07 | 5918863 A_Gobshite
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Fast and Furious Part Deux

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:20 | 5918945 onewayticket2
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thought the identical thing.  

let's HOPE they have some strategy...each item tainted with bubonic plague or some such.  but, i'd guess it's a less destructive reason.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:07 | 5918866 Jonesy
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"lost", my ass.  Just print more, that's what the presses are for, emergencies.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:21 | 5918948 onewayticket2
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stimulative!

 

best, 

Paul Krugman

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:07 | 5918868 Handful of Dust
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"Fast & Furious" redux.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:07 | 5918869 undercover brother
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Typical of an administration that operates at the highest order of incompetence imaginable.  nothing would surprise me less than if those non-delivered items were eventually delivered.  

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:09 | 5918871 Itchy and Scratchy
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The al-Quaeda (or whatever they will be called) won't know what hit 'em if they touch those weapons. Hopefully they will be smart enough not to take the bait!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:12 | 5918896 LawsofPhysics
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Right, because the U.S.'s track record in the middle east is all about short swift wars leaving behind nothing but a glass desert with a few oil wells....  ...not to mention the fact that the CIA trained most of these people to begin with.

FAIL!

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:15 | 5918920 NoDebt
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We didn't track the weapons in the Fast & Furious operation (gun running to Mexico), what makes you think we're going to track these?

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:08 | 5918873 LawsofPhysics
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"loses"....    LMFAO!!

 

Still a profit to the MIC that sold them to the taxpayer!!!

 

Stupid fucks, the taxpayers would probably buy this shit if you just sold it directly to them!!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:10 | 5918882 JustObserving
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Meanwhile the Nobel Prize Winner declares Venezuela as an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the US security:

On Monday, US President Barack Obama issued an executive order imposing sanctions against seven Venezuelan officials, freezing their assets and banning them from entering the United States. Obama described “erosion” of human rights guarantees in Venezuela as an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the US security.

“The announcement is not only appalling due to the unusual hardness of its terms, almost threatening, but causes astonishment and surprise,” the Argentinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its website Wednesday.

http://sputniknews.com/world/20150312/1019383383.html


Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:12 | 5918898 101 years and c...
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"just when we thought it was logistically impossible for US foreign policy to be any more incompetent and cluless". thats funny.  i always expect the US to look more and more incompetent with every passing day.  but, none of it matter as long as stocks stay elevated. 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:13 | 5918905 Mayer Amschel R...
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Better get to banning cash sooner rather than later to fight this terrorist threat and all.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:14 | 5918910 Mike Honcho
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The good or bad Al-Qaeda?  Foreign diplomacy based on Who's on First philosophy.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:14 | 5918912 williambanzai7
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Better monitor everyone's cash transactions.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:14 | 5918914 Bankster Kibble
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"Hey, it's good for the economy!"

     - Rumsfeld, Cheney, Clinton, McCain, et al

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:01 | 5918936 hootowl
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Ovomit found a way to get weapons into the hands of the putative enemy, after all Congress wouldn't approve any money for the Islamic murderers, so he found a way to go around the irrelevant Congress.......Ovomit had no choice but to sacrifice Yemen, its just a small country, after all.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:15 | 5918921 Monetas
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Obama is a Muslim .... Jihad is a commandment for Muslims ! 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:48 | 5919055 tony wilson and...
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monetas you fucking bum

you elton john loving child fiddler.

barry is one of yours you old gay boy

a jewisher

a queer

a zion loving rabbi

a purveyor of the satanic talmudicks of rothschild chatham house tavistock.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:18 | 5918935 Dkizzle49855
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What is the delivery date of the "not yet delivered" and can they just ammend the shipping doc's to the new owner's address to insure prompt delivery? 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:20 | 5918946 Mister Delicious
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Just how many 'accidental' weapons drops to ISIS have their been in Syria and Iraq?

The wonder is that the NY Times, CNN, et al. are still taken at all seriously by reasonably intelligent people.

 

ISIS so obviously has state {or states} backing, is so obviously a proxy for the US/Israel, that the complete acceptance of the .gov narrative in the MSM tells you that the American people are the most lied to people on earth.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:21 | 5918950 Hubbs
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With liberty and free weapons for all!

 

The military industrial complex must be stroking themselves to orgasm by now.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:22 | 5918953 SpanishGoop
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You stupid Americans.

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:34 | 5918976 Monetas
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You stupid Spics ! Mexicans and Mexican Americans have more wealth than Brazilians or Spaniards !

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:23 | 5918954 Bastiat
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I'm certain the Senate will hold hearings and demand answers!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:51 | 5919073 Berspankme
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They planned to but McCain and Lindsey were in the bathroom buttfucking so there will be a delay until cleanup

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:23 | 5918955 taketheredpill
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The more weapons ISIL gets the more likely that the US strategy in Iraq gets replicated across Saudi Arabia and perhaps Iran.  Destroy the Social Infrastructure (or get somebody else to destroy it) so that domestic industrial activity is halted.  That way all the Oil stays underground (i.e. in storage) until you decide to come back and do the scorched earth thang.

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:23 | 5918957 Itchy and Scratchy
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Note to Muslims : Do not touch those 'hot' weapons unless your in a real hurry to see Muhammad!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:23 | 5918958 therover
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" This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years"

WTF ! Successfully pursuing something means you are just doing a good job following it around. Heck, I successfully pursue women all the time...doesn't mean I am getting laid !

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:25 | 5918963 Monetas
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Soetoro was a Muslim .... Barack (pronounced BIRICK in Kenya) Obama Sr. was a Muslim .... Frank Marshall Davis was a Communist .... his maternal grandfather was CIA .... he attended a few sermons with Rev. Wright in Chicago .... his friends were Weathermen terrorist .... where did he learn his Christian free market capitalism ?

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:49 | 5919061 gregga777
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You omitted that:

…Barack Obama's Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro or Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo also known as Lolo Sutoro, also a Muslim (not there's anything wrong with that), enrolled Barack in a madrasah, a school for Muslims only…on Barack's enrollment form Barack's religion was listed as "Muslim"…

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:54 | 5919090 tony wilson and...
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monetas

this is a good real life movie about the dancing rabbi of the 9 11 talmudick tora bora  ritual

 

Christopher Bollyn 2015 “Solving 911 Ends the War”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP_Ezjm7xDg

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