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Abe
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since 2003-05-28
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Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end!

0 posted 2006-10-31 09:42 AM



http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/world/middleeast/30reconstruct.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

ARMING THE INSURGENTS?

Last month I bought a shotgun
At a large, well known store
I had to tell them about my life
Every detail, and even more.

It took more than two hours
For me to buy that legal gun
And it's not for some crime
Just protection and some fun.

But we spent many millions
To armsome people of Iraq
For nearly half a million guns
But, seems the Pentagon lost track.

They don't know where most went
They disappeared without a trace
But, bet some are killing our own Troops
As they serve in that foreign place.

There is really something wrong
When it's hard to buy one here
But arm people who want us dead
As they have said, loud and clear.

Those who run the Pentagon
Should be fired on the spot
But we all know they won't be
And will they fix it?Probably not!

But, the gun makers love it
They'll probably make another sale
To replace all of those lost
And with that, I'll end this sad tale.

10.31.06

Del "Abe" Jones
Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity.

© Copyright 2006 Del - All Rights Reserved
JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
1 posted 2007-02-10 09:54 PM


And truckloads of money disappeared also...
perhaps some to the insurgents...James

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