Worst Examples of Taxpayer Money Wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan

[The Straight Story]

Worst Examples of Taxpayer Money Wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan

When the U.S. government wasted somewhere between $30 billion and $60 billion on contracts for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, it did so in a variety of ways.

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The Deloitte accounting firm received $92 million to train executives of the Afghanistan Central Bank, which oversaw the Kabul Bank, the nation’s largest private bank. Kabul Bank collapsed in 2010, so it’s unclear what kind of lessons Deloitte was teaching.

Perhaps the most egregious contracts were held by KBR, the one-time Halliburton subsidiary that produced numerous headlines for its questionable billing and decision-making while supporting the Iraq war.

While making more than $36 billion to support bases in Iraq, KBR allegedly earned another $700 million in kickbacks from the subcontractors it hired for projects. It also spent $5 million on 144 mechanics who worked as little as 43 minutes a month, on average. And to top it all off,
KBR may have been involved in human trafficking of men and women from developing countries who were forced to live in “prisonlike” conditions in Iraq.

http://www.allgov.com/Where_is_the_Money_Going/ViewNews/Worst_Examples_of_Taxpayer_Money_Wasted_in_Iraq_and_Afghanistan_110908

[Drale]

1. The biggest waist of tax payer money EVER

is paying idiots to be elected officials.

[Broderick]

2. That's okay

We will be touting troop draw down, meanwhile the checkbook gets open real wide for the corporations taking over in vast numbers. Our military is being outsourced.