U.S. Airstrikes Destroy Millions Of Dollars In U.S.-Made Arms In Iraq

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WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - The grainy black-and-white footage shows a military vehicle, a small dark mass in the crosshairs of a U.S. war plane, seconds before it explodes in a flash of light.

That Aug. 16 strike in northern Iraq, shown in video released by the U.S. military, destroyed an unknown number of Islamic State fighters and one U.S.-made armored vehicle with a price tag of up to $300,000.

Since the Obama administration began strikes there on Aug. 8, U.S. fighter jets and drones have destroyed an estimated $3 million-$4 million worth of Iraqi military vehicles that were provided by the United States and later seized by Islamists who now control a third of Iraq.

The growing tally of U.S.-made, U.S.-destroyed weaponry is testament to how far Iraq has veered off the course the Obama administration expected when U.S. troops withdrew in 2011.
U.S. officials had hoped their effort to train and arm the Iraq military, at a cost more of than $20 billion, would guarantee stability.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/26/us-military-weapons-iraq_n_5718099.html?ir=Politics

[brer cat]

1. But we can't afford to feed our poor. nt

[misterhighwasted]

2. Thanks Cheney & Bush. what the F do those S .O.B.'s care

They all made their billions & left the US Taxpayers on the hook for generations to come.
They stole the White House to steal from us all. Enriched themselves & laughed all the way to the bank at what gullible fools Americans were to buy their lie.
Cheney, both Pa & Boy Bush bullshit presidencies & all who abetted their dirty deals with their bff's the Saudis & the Kochs.
Bush's Base. Enriched themselves & changed this great Nation forever.
F every one of them & their generations yet to come.
They are not Americans. They are traitors.

[2naSalit]

3. Well, it is

one way to get rid of a bunch of the weapons of war. Not the best way but it accomplishes a portion of a humongous task.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Ok...so our taxes paid for military equipment which we then left in Iraq

and we are paying more taxes to our military to destroy the equipment that we paid for that we left in Iraq
so we can pay MORE of our money to Lockheed and other companies to build MORE military equipment for future lil wars.

good thing money isn't real anymore, ain't it?

[misterhighwasted]

5. Best analogy I've heard yet.

American citizens have been duped. We barely have a country at this point.
Stolen right out from under our noses.
ALEC, KOCHS et al, BUSH FAMILY MOFIA & their cohorts the SAUDIS.
We can bitch all we want, believing our words are considered. Our concerns fall on deaf ears. The theft of America is progressing as planned & another Bush in the White House should seal the deal.

[polynomial]

6. The Republican Party is the problem

Because Bush and Cheney are the dominant force in the one percent today

In a relentless advantage they are able write history the way Bush and Cheney want; via mainstream media.

It is needed to counter those lies with endless debate ongoing discussion that gives the true theme in a self-evident cultural content, in other words telling the truth without lies will prove symmetry with the Constitution.

America got snookered, Bush and Cheney complicit with legions of politicians played the war game in business banking security with war profiteering using seasoned premeditated graduated intellectual university trained appointees implementing foul plans to conceive profiteering at a level never done before delivered by a cultural base loaded with corruption in the mainstream media.


The core flaw of the current One Percent Republican Party is now to coin a funny economic power phrase fracking in power energy fracturing with fractals that is seismic eventually destroying the One Percenters in the worst way; by losing their money caused by greed failing to go green energy.

One Percent riches can be lost in a Bloomberg flash crash once that systemic New Fraud Order is established. The present One Percenters don’t like to loose and use every card trick to win, in mostly unfair ways.

My favorite expression to hear on Braking News is the banking breach that banking records have been compromised or hacked by some super geeky technology mind or freewheeling foreign entity without proof. That happening more regular then an air strike against ISIS. In the obnoxious way this shows the arrogance complicity and broad connection to deceive the General Electorate.

The American people need to know it takes a very sophisticated intelligent mind to tap the system for records. The Banking System uses a mathematical algorithm that involves prime numbers for security, which might have to be known by an insider. The current banking scams are totally a fraud representation of the problem.

This is basically why it is difficult for people in order to expand the middle class, and improve the options to be able to enjoy retirement life and live comfortably should realize the disproportionate tax placed on the General Electorate. The tax ratio violates a common ancient mathematical proportion called the golden rule.

Then if people are the corporation the new GE of the future…is the General Electorate. The One Percent will argue that one to call it what Sean Hannity always says this new talking point is a redistribution of wealth even though the Republican One Percent started the concept. Or any mind in science knows is what Darwin calls natural order and an excellent reason the bible belt prevents that reasoning out of basic education…

[misterhighwasted]

7. You Get It. Thanks for your post.

Agree on the Bush statement.
Key facts with that corrupt family begin with their father. Prescott and filters through our American government with both George H W Bush's involvement in the CIA, along with Dick Cheney.
They have had a hand in the corruption all along the way.
I think of the deaths of the Kennedy's, the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, the current manipulation of voters, & the racial oppression of African Americans all these years later.
The position the Bush Family carved out for themselves early on, and their close affiliation with the Saudis, Big Oil & Big Banks tells me nothing has changed nor will it ever change. They aren't hearing a word we say, and continue to see the American citizens as simply a plate of riches just placed in front of them to take what they want, whenever they want.
They have made the world theirs for the taking.

And what power have we to stand against their pillage of our Nation & people?
Who divides them & levels the playing field?
I see no one as of yet.