US seeks to buy ammunition from Taiwan as stocks run low after Iraq:

[saigon68]

US seeks to buy ammunition from Taiwan as stocks run low after Iraq:


6 January 2005

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/January/theworld_January168.xml§ion=theworld&col=

TAIPEI - The United States is planning to buy hundreds of millions of bullets from Taiwan in the first such deal as its supplies are running low after wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a report said Thursday.


Citing Taiwanese military sources, the United Evening News said Washington had made the request to acquire some 300 million 5.56-millimeter bullets for rifles for an estimated two billion Taiwan dollars (62.5 million US).The deal was yet to be finalized pending price negotiations, it said.

An unnamed general quoted by the paper said it would be the first time for Washington, Taiwan’s leading arms supplier, to acquire arms from the island.


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Washington Wednesday agreed to sell air-to-ground Hellfire missiles worth 50 million US dollars to Taiwan to help the island defend itself against threats from rival China.

[phusion]

1. Taiwan uber alliez

Taiwan joins Oceania struggle against East Asia!

Way to go, comrades!

Party Member 3515907151
War is Peace

[Goldeneye]

2. we can't make our own weapons?

shouldn't we open some factories and get some unemployed people working in them? er something...

[Mistress Quickly]

4. Exactly

isn't that what happened during WWII? Didn't that help lift us out of the Depression? You know, Rosie the Riveter?

[phusion]

5. Outsourcing, duh!

It's cheaper that way...More money for Halliburton.

[Goldeneye]

6. ahhh yes halliburton...

of course...i'd nearly forgotten...hah...makes me chuckle at my own silliness. Say it with me now, HAL*I*BUR*TON. Halliburtonage. the halliburton card. BIG Hal. If its good for corporations, its good for America.

[Just Me]

3. Have we re-ignited another arms race?

OH NO!!! Not the righteous U.S. of A.

*sigh*

Spiralling downwards.

[TheFarseer]

7. For God's sake

What if we're in a real war, where it's life and death and we don't have the factories to make enough tanks, jets, ships, guns and ammo? Outsourcing is going to sound like a really f%#$ing great idea then. Especially if we're fighting China and all our factories are over there!

[Erika]

11. Agree, totally

We're in a war depending on a foreign country for our military needs. That is ------ unbelieveable.

[Algorem]

8. I'm sure there's nothing in it for the Bushes,

http://www.politicalamazon.com/bush-chinese.html

[wtmusic]

9. Air-to-ground missiles for Taiwan?

Should come in handy, should Taiwan ever decide to attack mainland China.

For about a minute and a half.

[Erika]

10. We can't make our own bullets?

We depend on another country for our military supplies? This is freaking unbelieveable. Will Bush have negotiation talks with countries for us to "beg" them to sell to us, bribe them, or just turn them down and let our kids die. Bush is a ------- -------.

[Barkley]

12. 300 MILLION BULLETS!?!?!?!

That's enough to kill each Iraqi more than 10 times!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

13. "After" Iraq?

Someone's not paying attention...