Where are the Weapons From? Bush Wants to Know

CNN POSTED: 2:18 p.m. EST, February 14, 2007 "My job is to protect our troops, and when we find devices that are in that country that are hurting our troops, we're going to do something about it, pure and simple. ... Does this mean you're trying to have a pretext for war? No. It means I'm trying to protect our troops. That's what that means," Bush said. (Full story)

This statement is a bit ridiculous and I don’t think I’ll be the only one to realize this. The President is saying that the US foreign policy is to warn and threaten countries who have manufactured arms that are used in Iraq against our troops. How many Russian, Chinese, French and U.S. made weapons are in the hands of terrorists everywhere, especially in Iraq where they can be used to train terrorists as well as kill our soldiers? Why aren’t we closing down the factories that are creating, marketing and selling weapons world wide? There are many companies in the U.S. that are manufacturing arms that don't all go to our military. Where are the extra weapons going?

Where are the surface to air, hand held Stinger missile launchers that we gave to the Afghani rebels during the Soviet occupation there? At one point the CIA were paying up to $200,000 for each Stinger turned into them. The Taliban has over a thousand Stinger missile launchers. There were close to 3,000 there at one time.

"The FIM-92 Stinger is a man portable infra-red homing surface-to-air missile developed in the United States and used by all the US armed services, with whom it entered service in 1981. The basic Stinger missile has to date been responsible for 270 confirmed kills of aircraft.It is manufactured by Raytheon Missile Systems and also under license by EADS in Germany. Raytheon designates the missile as a MANPADS (Man-Portable Air-Defense System). It is used by the military of the United States and by 29 other countries. Around 70,000 missiles have been produced." wikipidia