I heard on the news this evening....

[whistle]

...not sure which cable network, maybe MSNBC, that the U.S. military is forecasting a shortfall of...."BULLETS"....during the next 12 months. Something like 130 million rounds short! I apologize that I don't have a link, but as I recall that's something like 25% less than the factory's capacity to produce. There is only one factory that makes bullets in the U.S. somewhere in Missouri. It would require a year for them to expand capacity. So they are thinking that maybe they'll out-source (more American jobs go overseas)manufacturing to Canada and I missed the other country, but I thought they said Israel.

This is like the movie "Scheindlier's List" where the Nazi war-machine begins to grind to a halt due to shortages, and so they enlist Jewish concentration camp workers (slave laborers) to make munitions and Scheindlier makes sure that the bullets all misfire. The Rumsfeld/BushCo team of fascistic efficiency freaks really screwed us on the preparedness front. No planning, no real sense of the direction the war would take, duped by a double agent (Chiable sp??), a military out of control, prison atrocities, etc, etc, etc.

Sorry, but if Bush really wanted to fight WW III, we would be totally screwed.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Read earlier today they were 800 million short for next year.

Sorry, no link.

[JaySherman]

4. I heard last night they're going to privatize the manufacture of bullets.

Right now there's only one government company that does it and they can't keep with the demand.

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. Privatize???

To what country?

[JaySherman]

12. Don't remember.

Heard this on radiopower.org during Thom Hartmann's show. I think they said contracts were going to be put out for bid. I can't check now cause I'm at work. You might want to check out the archive for Wednesday's show on whiterosesociety's site.

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. Thanks.

I am assuming it's Asia somewhere.

[DarkPhenyx]

2. There would be except...

...we have outsourced the extra production needed to meet demand. The largest portion of it is going to Israeli manufacturers I think. After that I think it's the whole of South America.

[madmax]

3. Same thing happened in VietNam

According to a friend who was there they needed bullets and got cases of tampons :crazy:

[seventhson]

5. When the Nazis ran out of bullets

more here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1673665

[Generator]

6. It was on Countdown with Ohlberman/eom

[Bullshot]

7. Randi Rhoades discussed it this afternoon.

Her solution to this situation was...Wal-Mart!

Let the Pentagon go to Wally World for all of their wartime needs.

Got my flour sack. Got my camera and film. Got my rope. Got my dog collars. Let's see...I know there's something I meant to pick up when I left the house...

I know...BULLETS!

Quite humorous.

If we do run out of bullets, what do we do? Hit 'em with Haliburton broomsticks?

[NEOBuckeye]

8. World War III will be extremely short -- and economic.

When the world gets tired of the Bush-Cheney machine and its warmongering, they'll just call our debts due, and the US will be toast. Even a massive, global economic meltdown is preferable to Pax Americana.

I think they're holding out to see if the American people will hold the Bush regime accountable this November. If not, Soviet Union, here we come!

[izzie]

10. I heard this and China came to mind. I think the Bush's ----------

do a lot of business over their.George has even been there so could most likely find it on a map.

[DemoTex]

11. Full-metal-jackets?

Not so full any more.

[NYC]

14. Link to Financial Times article re bullet shortage.

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1084907850631&p=1012571727085

US asks private sector to ease bullet shortage
By Christopher Bowe in New York
Published: May 26 2004 22:00 | Last Updated: May 26 2004 22:00

[NNN0LHI]

15. Must be really shooting them up over there?

Kind of jives with the reports of the soldiers shooting at anything that moves.

Don