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bullwinkle428

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6. Rachel presented this story last week, and had a slightly different take.

Tue Oct 14, 2014, 01:28 PM

Oct 2014

She essentially stated that, yes, the U.S. taxpayers spent nearly $500 million for this fleet of aircraft as a "gift" of sorts to Afghanistan. At that point, the Afghan armed forces apparently didn't have either the ability or the desire to maintain them in a flight-worthy condition, thus leaving themselves with $500 million worth of paperweights sitting in a grassy field, so they decided to get what they could out of them, scrapping them for the 6 cents a pound.

I suppose that's better than just handing them over to ISIS.

K&R.

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WTF ??? - 'U.S. taxpayers paid $486 million for Afghan air fleet. DOD sold it for scrap.' - WaPo [View all] WillyT Oct 2014 OP

What the f... indeed! nc4bo Oct 2014 #1

Behold, the true purpose of wars of choice. Maedhros Oct 2014 #2

Hey republicans want to know who the real people mooching off your tax dollars are? Initech Oct 2014 #3

+1 Johonny Oct 2014 #4

Don't forget the $7 billion worth of MRAPs we turned into scrap there. Comrade Grumpy Oct 2014 #5

Rachel presented this story last week, and had a slightly different take. bullwinkle428 Oct 2014 #6

They are airplanes, fly them back here. bahrbearian Oct 2014 #7

Where can Detroit apply to get its own Air Force? Octafish Oct 2014 #8

And that's why Defense takes up half of the budget Retrograde Oct 2014 #9