your taxes and health care dollars used to pay for guns for the Taliban
Loved ones…positive rewards are very very powerful…however not a potent as negative reward…negative consequences…not as powerful as real fear…

Loved ones those in the leadership roles in Washington during the last 8 years used fear to control you…those in Washington D.C. used fear to control the electorate and those elected by the same….that is why the myth of Ben Laden being alive is kept fronted upon you…and that is why we fund and armed those who are “called our enemies”….

Loved ones recently a 46-page report by the GAO, the non-partisan investigative arm of Congress, said there had been no monitoring of a further 135,000 weapons donated by NATO allies to the poorly paid and corruption-rife Afghan army and police.

Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said the Pentagon had already taken action on the report's recommendations for tracking of serial numbers and physical inventories of weapons given by both the United States and allies.

"We take our responsibility with regard to accountability of weapons seriously," he told reporters. "I think the record will show that our performance on this has improved over time for any number of reasons."

Under-staffed US military officials neglected to record serial numbers or conduct on-site inventories once the weapons were delivered, the report said.
"Given the unstable security conditions in Afghanistan, the risk of loss and theft of these weapons is significant," said the evaluation, which was submitted to a House of Representatives hearing Thursday.

Asked if US weapons could already be under Taliban or Al-Qaeda control, GAO international affairs director Charles Johnson cited military reports about "the theft of weapons and weapons potentially being sold to enemies."

The chairman of the House subcommittee on national security and foreign affairs, John Tierney, gave an emotive summary of the problem.

"What if we had to tell families not only why we are in Afghanistan, but why their son or daughter died at the hands of an insurgent using a weapon purchased by US taxpayers?" the Democrat told the hearing.

"But that's what we risk if we were to have tens of thousands of weapons we provided washing around Afghanistan, off the books."

The report mirrored GAO findings in August 2007 that the Pentagon had lost track of nearly 200,000 weapons given to security forces in Iraq.
Having toured Afghanistan last August, GAO inspectors wrote: "Lapses in accountability occurred throughout the supply chain.

"This was primarily due to a lack of clear direction from Defense and staffing shortages."
Lack of manpower has long worried US commanders in Afghanistan.

President Barack Obama is expected shortly to decide on a request from General David McKiernan for up to 30,000 extra troops to combat the resurgent Taliban.

Aside from M-16 rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and mortars, the GAO report found inadequate oversight of 2,410 night-vision goggles issued to the Afghan National Army.

The Pentagon waited 15 months, until October 2008, before it started monitoring the end use of the high-tech devices, which give a crucial edge on the nocturnal battlefield, and 10 remained unaccounted for.

The GAO said that at the Afghan end, corruption and illiteracy were major impediments to keeping track of the weapons.

Security was often risible, with just a wooden door and a miniature padlock guarding an arms room in one northern Afghan police station visited by the GAO inspectors.
At the Afghan army's central weapons depot in Kabul, the team found "guards sleeping on duty and missing from their posts."

A subsequent audit by the US military found 47 pistols had been stolen from the depot.

Loved ones…do you find this strange?…

Do you think our United States of America tax dollars should be spent to arm the Taliban instead of going to meet the dramatic domestic health care needs of you and I and all your loved ones?

Do you not think this is strange…?

Earlier this week Dick Chaney (the man who ousted Valarie Plame)stated publicly he expected the Taliban to be rearmed and even more willing to kill americans….strange!

At this time I petition for those elected officials and those contracted by our elected officials who purposefully purchased and shipped and distributed weapons to the Taliban …I petition that they learn all their lessons with the least amount of pain.

You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers.

Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com
- posted by Samuel Bell @ 1:58 PM