To think our citizens want to turn health care over to the government God help us all!!

John, Lax,

Why am I not surprised.

Come on people of America! Wise up, take an interest in why you are over there, stop sitting idly by whilst all this is going on. Change your attitude and change your goverment, the sooner the better.

Max, Ostuni, Puglia, Italy.

Is the AK-47 an American weapon?

"More than 190,000 AK-47 rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005 are missing, raising fears that US and British troops are fighting an enemy armed with American weapons."

Jim, Ontario,

US had said two month ago that it planned to arm the Sunni tribes to take on Al Qaeda in Iraq. They were armed in the hope that they would fight each other. But now US has no idea where all those guns are. I bet militias are using US weapons to kill American soldiers. I wonder how many British troops have been killed by insurgents carrying machine guns given by US forces. How can US now blame Iran for providing wepaons to its allies in Iraq. I think this was a stupid idea to provide weapons to your enemies. US should immediately withdraw from Iraq. It is the only way to end violence in that country. Iraqi do not like their country being occupied.

Z Hussain, Rochdale, UK

This article takes my breathe away. It implies that American, British and Iraqi soldiers, police, contractors, support personnel, translators and thousands of Iraqi citizens killed since the insurgency gained strength in 2004 may well be the victims of American weapons. This breach of compentance and waste of human life and our children's American legacy is the final blow for me. I sit alone in my office ashamed of what America, in the hands of billigerent fools, has become. We are the miliary complex that Eisenhower warned us against and all the talk of G-d, country and righteousness is a disguise.

Carol Hagen, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Who gets promoted for this? An act of such utter incompetence should surely be rewarded.

Bud Verde, Oakland, CA

Not much to tracking this kind of thing. Assign the serial number of the weapon issued to the soldier who received it. There are however some reasons why this many are missing:
(1) US & BRITISH TROOPS who keep spare AK-47s in their humvee as a backup. Some even carry it as a primary these weapons when allowed due to their resistance to jamming in sand and dust. Probably 2 out of 3 soldiers happen to have one in their footlocker (Sun. target practice). After active duty they give it to another soldier, turn it in, etc. (2) IRAQI POLICE & SOLDIERS - Guns are constantly issued to new recruits and tracking is likely poor. These Iraqis also want a backup for their home as they and their families are constant targets or violence. Many of the millions of AK-47s in Iraqi homes were confiscated early in the war and they are simply re-arming. 3) Iraqi officials may have sold 1000's of them to every Larry, Curley, and Muhammed who would buy it. Some for protection. Some for terror.

Jeff G., Oklahoma City, OK

You are all stupid and should grow up and stop fighting

Blondy, New plymouth, New york

Do you suppose they used any of those 363 tons of 100-dollar bills to buy these weapons? Probably not--when both were so easy to steal.

Does this mean the cigarette lighter ban is back on?

Can we survive another 18 months of these idiots?

sim, Carlsbad, USA/CA

This would be totally unbelievable if it weren't for the long history of this administration's incompetency in all departments!

Winton, New London,

Is it any wonder why we're losing this war?

Tom De Hart, Glassboro, USA/NJ

As if we needed further affirmation that Americans cant count.

Farrukh, Woking, UK

It is so hard to comprehend how our government is really sticking it to us citizens of America and still have the audacity to ask for 2 Billion after being showen how they have throwen away over 19 Billion that they have no idea where it went. In the meantime our introstructure here at home is crumbling because we don't have the money to correct it.
I seen waste in WW 11 but nothing like this. I am 88 years old and can't beleve what is happening with the tax payers hard working dollars.
If anything near this would happen in any of our industries the whole bunch of top people would go to jail and all the employees would lose thier jobs.

Raymond F. Hoffman, Cincinnati, Clermont, Ohio 45255

This whole sad episode of American history sounds as if the country and it's war is being run by the "Keystone Cops"....It would be laughable if it were not so tragic.
As usual because the administration, the pentagon and congress are not held accountable by their perverse actions, then what happens at the top just trickles down to the bottom and whowever is responsible for this fiasco will probably not accept any accountability either....
The American taxpayer will foot the bill for all this reckless irresponsibility and the American soldiers will pay the price for this appaling lack of oversight.......There are of course those that will make a fortune supplying new weapons and replacements for those that were given away to the enemy.They are getting too fat and too happy to care one way or another.....!
If this is another demonstration of how to run a healthy democracy it is no wonder there are many peoples in the world that want no ailing part of it.

Concerned, Crested Butte, Co USA

As to the following foul-up.....should have sent it Fed Ex and kept the tracking numbers on file! Lord, our tax dollars at work.....

In relation to the missing weapons, the US military was consistently unable to find supporting documents to “confirm when the equipment was received, the quantities of equipment delivered and the Iraqi units receiving the equipment.”

The reports added that the failure to track the weapons was due to a lack of staff, together with a rush to equip nascent Iraqi forces as the insurgency gained strength in 2004 and 2005

Katherine, Santa Monica, CA

Just another arrow in the Bush organization. When will the American people and their elected officials fiinally get fed up with this road to destruction that Bush is leading us down?

Patsy Thompson, Longmont, CO

Then why are we still in the war if we can not keep track of the weapons and our men

lynda, San Antonio,

Just send more, what the hell?

GK, Calgary, Canada

i think i warned you. didn't i?

chuck, dc, dc

Just another example of the incompetent bungling
of the US in Iraq.

Bruce L. Northwood, Washington, D.C., USA