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Arms and accounting

With the cost of the war in Iraq now at $2 trillion, and climbing, a US Government has found that the military has no system of accounting for hundreds of thousands of arms bought for Iraq security forces. Semi-automatic pistols, heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers have gone missing. The entire Iraqi reconstruction program is now bogged down in corruption and missing billions and the Pentagon has no ability to keep track of its numbers.

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