Time to invade Missouri

By Fester

Well, that is the obvious conclusion to be drawn from this Australian report:

SIX British soldiers serving in Iraq were killed by the same Western-made rifle within three months last year, an inquest was told yesterday.

Rifleman Aaron Lincoln, 18, of the 2nd Battalion The Rifles, was the second victim of the gunman. A high-velocity 5.56mm round – the normal bullet fired by an American M16 or a British SA80 – penetrated Rifleman Lincoln’s protective glasses and helmet as he was on patrol in Basra on April 2 last year.

Ann Kiernan, of LGC Forensics, told the inquest at Spennymoor, Co Durham, that the bullet had been fired from the same gun that killed several other soldiers in the same area between March and June. She said that the bullets had been manufactured in the United States by Lake City Arsenal, an arms manufacturer.

Missouri is willfully supplying weapons that kill Coalition soldiers.  Time for war, as the Basra operations in 2007 were Missouri's attempt to influence the city...that is the only reasonable explanation....

Ahh, slightly absurd.

We have a global arms market with multiple dealers, multiple suppliers, multiple end-users and plenty of cash floating around.  That is the briefest of sketches of how a bullet made in Missouri killed British soldiers in Basra, and it explains quite a bit of foreign made weapons being found in Iraq....