{"id":233,"date":"2005-01-08T00:10:48","date_gmt":"2005-01-08T05:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=233"},"modified":"2005-01-07T23:21:35","modified_gmt":"2005-01-08T04:21:35","slug":"our-army-all-out-of-buwwetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Our army: all out of buwwetts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military is running out of ammunition in its concurrent self-declared conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq (I don&#8217;t call them wars because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monad.com\/sdg\/Journal\/warpowers.html\">legally, they are not<\/a>).  So where does it go to restock?  <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=1521&#038;ncid=731&#038;e=5&#038;u=\/afp\/20050106\/pl_afp\/taiwanusiraqmilitary\">To Taiwan, of course<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 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).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny how just a few years ago, it was we who sold arms to Taiwan.  Who wants to bet we&#8217;re not buying it back at a loss?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the Bush Administration was caught manufacturing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2005-01-06-williams-whitehouse_x.htm\">propaganda disguised as journalism<\/a>, again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military is poised to replenish its dwindling stock of bullets and ammunition&#8230; by ordering from Taiwan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}