US forced to import bullets from Israel as troops use 250,000 for every rebel killed

[Modbert]

US forced to import bullets from Israel as troops use 250,000 for every rebel killed - World news, News - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk

US forces have fired so many bullets in Iraq and Afghanistan - an estimated 250,000 for every insurgent killed - that American ammunition-makers cannot keep up with demand. As a result the US is having to import supplies from Israel.

But senior officers have recently claimed "great successes" in Iraq, based on counting the bodies of insurgents killed. Maj-Gen Rick Lynch, the top US military spokesman in Iraq, said 1,534 insurgents had been seized or killed in a recent operation in the west of Baghdad. Other estimates from military officials suggest that at least 20,000 insurgents have been killed in President George Bush's "war on terror".

John Pike, director of the Washington military research group GlobalSecurity.org, said that, based on the GAO's figures, US forces had expended around six billion bullets between 2002 and 2005. "How many evil-doers have we sent to their maker using bullets rather than bombs? I don't know," he said.

The Pentagon reportedly bought 313 million rounds of 5.56mm, 7.62mm and 50-calibre ammunition last year and paid $10m (about £5.5m) more than it would have cost for it to produce the ammunition at its own facilities.

That is certainly a lot of bullets to say the least.

 

[zzzz]

Better to buying bullets than body bags. But getting them from Israel kinda presents an image of Jews standing in the background providing the means to kill Moslems.

 

[Kalam]

But getting them from Israel kinda presents an image of Jews standing in the background providing the means to kill Moslems.