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2006-12-11 Iraq

Black-market weapon prices surge in Iraq

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-12-11 06:46|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Supply is down? Demand is up?

No, too simple. US mismanagement is the cause!

Posted by Bobby 2006-12-11 07:06|| 2006-12-11 07:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Of course, you'll tell me : "what does this have to do with the price of kalashnikovs in peshwar?"

OT but that's way Old school RB, nearly Inside Baseball.

Posted by Shipman 2006-12-11 08:12|| 2006-12-11 08:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Surely, if there's a weapons shortage in Iraq, eventually that will percolate down to the shop floors in Peshawar, despite the muscularity of the indigenous weapons manufacturing sector. Is the weapons market is fungible, like oil and other commodities?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-11 08:19|| 2006-12-11 08:19|| Front Page Top

#4 The left, having won a US election, no longer sees the need to continue to support the terrorists in Iraq and are now diverting their money to the US.

That is why weapons prices are up.

Posted by badanov 2006-12-11 08:22|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2006-12-11 08:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Surely, if there's a weapons shortage in Iraq, eventually that will percolate down to the shop floors in Peshawar, despite the muscularity of the indigenous weapons manufacturing sector. Is the weapons market is fungible, like oil and other commodities?

This peshawar thing was an inside joke, be it for true old-timers, or for encroaching parazites like me.
Meaning = "you're strafing off topic, keep focused on the nuts and bolts of the GWOT", often reduced to the single "peshawar" word, usually by Liberal Hawk .

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-12-11 10:38|| 2006-12-11 10:38|| Front Page Top

#6 I know, a5089 dear, but you very cleverly raised a legitimate point -- if weapons have, due to the number of pre-invasion caches destroyed in place by Coalition and Iraqi forces (I assume it isn't just the US guys who get to have the fun of making massive explosions), become so much more rare as to drive the price up locally, what effect will that have elsewhere? I s'pose I should have added an appreciation to your reference, because I was smiling as I typed. I do apologize.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-11 13:52|| 2006-12-11 13:52|| Front Page Top

#7 what no more background checks?

Posted by Jan from work 2006-12-11 13:55|| 2006-12-11 13:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Absolutely bizarre. Weapons prices are going up and the leftards at the IHT blame it on US mismanagement essentially increasing the supply! Are they really that stupid?

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-12-11 17:12|| http://www.nuclearspace.com]">[http://www.nuclearspace.com] 2006-12-11 17:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Ummmm....

Posted by .com 2006-12-11 17:13|| 2006-12-11 17:13|| Front Page Top

#10 You expect actual thought from the International Herald Tribune, now that it's become a reporter-free, next day, shrunken New York Times? That just isn't fair, Atomic Conspiracy!

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-11 17:19|| 2006-12-11 17:19|| Front Page Top

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