The Best-Armed Insurgency . . . Ever

Put this one in the "just when you think it can't get any worse" category:

The US government cannot account for 190,000 weapons issued to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to an investigation carried out by the Government Accountability Office.

According to the July 31 report, the military "cannot fully account for about 110,000 AK-47 assault rifles, 80,000 pistols, 135,000 items of body armour and 115,000 helmets reported as issued to Iraqi forces."

The weapons disappeared from records between June 2004 and September 2005, as the military struggled to rebuild the disbanded Iraqi forces from scratch amid mounting attacks from Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias. * * *

Instead of spending all that money arming "the enemy," we could have spent it on improving America's infrastructure.

Oh well. But it does once again bring up the question of whether it is possible to commit treason through gross negligence.