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US Mil handing Iraq Schtuff worth $Billions
 | Follow-up on Besoeker's comment yesterday: |
With just over three months until the last U.S. troops are currently due to leave Iraq, the Department of Defense is engaged in a mad dash to give away things that cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars to buy and build. The giveaways include enormous, elaborate military bases and vast amounts of military equipment that will be turned over to the Iraqis, mostly just to save the expense of bringing it home.
Those bases didn't come cheap. Construction costs exceeded $2.4 billion, according to an analysis of Pentagon annual reports by the Congressional Research Service.
| No doubt. Construction is expensive in an active war zone. |
Over 2.4 million pieces of equipment worth a total of at least $250 million -- everything from tanks and trucks to office furniture and latrines -- have been given away to the Iraqi government in the past year, with the pace of transfers expected to increase dramatically in the coming months.
| We really want to haul the latrines home? |
| One does presume those latrines are no longer pristine... |
Posted by: Pappy 2011-09-27 |
