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Bigbadwooof
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US spends $34 Million on Afghan building it never used!
#21996830 - 07/25/15 07:14 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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The Pentagon spent 34 million dollars on a building in Afghanistan, which they paid a British firm to build, in spite of the fact that the generals on site protested it's construction, said they had no use for it, and were gone 6 months before it's completion.
They left 6 months before it's completion, but construction continued, and $400,000 worth of additional modifications were made to the building.
It will now either be handed over to the Afghani's, or demolished, the latter being more likely.
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“Unfortunately, it is unused, unoccupied, and presumably will never be used for its intended purpose,” Sopko wrote. “This is an example of what is wrong with military construction in general - once a project is started, it is very difficult to stop.”
The US must now decide whether to hand the facility over to the Afghan army or demolish it. Since the huge windowless building is equipped for US appliances and requires expensive fuel purchases for its generators, it may be difficult for Afghans to sustain.
“The building will probably be demolished,” the two-star Army general said.
http://www.rt.com/usa/afghanistan-pentagon-military-base-leatherneck-904/
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When US troops withdrew from Iraq, they left behind a plethora of abandoned projects, including a 3,600-bed prison that cost $40 million, a $165 million children’s hospital that remains unused, and a $108 million wastewater treatment center that remains unfinished. Building materials worth $1.2 million were abandoned when fears of violence prompted the US to abandon construction of the prison.
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Re: US spends $34 Million on Afghan building it never used! [Re: Bigbadwooof]
#21996904 - 07/25/15 07:30 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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This is dumb. I thought just about everyone was content to leave Afghanistan to the Afghani Military. I used to be a supporter of why we went in the first place and I still am to a small degree but right now we need to stop being world police and try and combat things like ISIS that are a direct threat to the U.S. Even then I feel like it should be a cyber war. There's very few things that justify troop deployment. For example Ukraine and Syria were both really violent actions and although there are still bad things happening in Afghanistan I don't think it compares to Ukraine or Syria. I think if we stuck are noses in syria it would've given leverage to corrupt politicians.
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Re: US spends $34 Million on Afghan building it never used! [Re: Seriously_trippin]
#21997024 - 07/25/15 08:00 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I am alright with the fact that we went into Afghanistan. We had an objective. Going into Iraq was a miserably fucking stupid thing to do, but in Afghanistan we had a purpose. To take out Bin Laden. We succeeded. Must we occupy every country we enter for a thousand years?
I would have been happier if they had at least contracted an American company to build this base. We need that money at homes, and the government just throws money into the military industrial complex like the shit grows on trees.
I hope our next president brings us home, and focuses on rebuilding America, not wasting money in the middle east, building structures that will never be used, and then demolishing them, which costs more money still.
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Re: US spends $34 Million on Afghan building it never used! [Re: Bigbadwooof]
#21999143 - 07/26/15 10:08 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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We'll get the CIA ISIS to destroy it then we can pay Haliburton to build another one.
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Re: US spends $34 Million on Afghan building it never used! [Re: The Ecstatic]
#21999185 - 07/26/15 10:17 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I've personally never met a terrorist. You?
I have poked a jellyfish with a stick, though.
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Re: US spends $34 Million on Afghan building it never used! [Re: The Ecstatic]
#21999307 - 07/26/15 10:47 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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The Ecstatic said: We'll get the CIA ISIS to destroy it then we can pay Haliburton to build another one.
Pretty much, except we paid a British company to build it.
I just want to say that you stupid fucking liberals just don't get that we can't afford medicare. We have to war!
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Re: US spends $34 Million on Afghan building it never used! [Re: Arctic W. Fox] 1
#21999353 - 07/26/15 10:55 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Arctic W. Fox said: I've personally never met a terrorist. You?
I have poked a jellyfish with a stick, though.
I'm sure I've met thousands of people the US government considers terrorists, or at the very least, "suspected terrorists."
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Re: US spends $34 Million on Afghan building it never used! [Re: The Ecstatic] 1
#21999784 - 07/26/15 12:25 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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The Ecstatic said:
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Arctic W. Fox said: I've personally never met a terrorist. You?
I have poked a jellyfish with a stick, though.
I'm sure I've met thousands of people the US government considers terrorists, or at the very least, "suspected terrorists."
My mom was investigated by the FBI because she visited Russia several times in the late 90's, my brother's dad is from Kuwait, and she went to Turkey in the early 2000's...
She's not a terrorist at all lmao! Just a crazy person...
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Re: US spends $34 Million on Afghan building it never used! [Re: Bigbadwooof]
#22000843 - 07/26/15 05:15 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Its funny cause thats the kind of shit Trump is denouncing in pretty much every speech he makes.
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Re: US spends $34 Million on Afghan building it never used! [Re: Patlal]
#22001147 - 07/26/15 06:16 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Patlal said: Its funny cause thats the kind of shit Trump is denouncing in pretty much every speech he makes.
I don't, by any means, disagree with everything Trump says. Certainly some of what he says I take issue with, but my main problem with Trump has more to do with the fact that he's a petty child.
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Re: US spends $34 Million on Afghan building it never used! [Re: Bigbadwooof]
#22002736 - 07/27/15 02:42 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I don't like his wig.
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Re: US spends $34 Million on Afghan building it never used! [Re: Arctic W. Fox]
#22004902 - 07/27/15 02:40 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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That's his real hair. He grows it long in the back, and combs it forward. Then he combs the side back like duck wings. I think he thinks he figured out how to hide baldness!
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Re: US spends $34 Million on Afghan building it never used! [Re: Bigbadwooof]
#22016802 - 07/29/15 07:39 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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$34 million is a drop in the bucket to what the govt wastes right here at home... Billions are wasted through Medicare, SSI and green energy BS,
I know, I know... "bush lied" , "war mongers" blah blah blah...
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Re: US spends $34 Million on Afghan building it never used! [Re: hostileuniverse]
#22019906 - 07/30/15 01:39 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Medicare and SSI helps people. Green energy helps the planet. The money spent helping people is nothing compared to the money wasted starting wars without raising taxes to pay for them. Who does that help? Oh yeah and .
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Re: US spends $34 Million on Afghan building it never used! [Re: hostileuniverse]
#22020268 - 07/30/15 03:06 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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hostileuniverse said: $34 million is a drop in the bucket to what the govt wastes right here at home... Billions are wasted through Medicare, SSI and green energy BS,
I know, I know... "bush lied" , "war mongers" blah blah blah...
How are any of those hings a waste of money? SSI isn't even the governments money to begin with. I am talking about an actual waste of money... I'm not just spewing ridiculous talking points like some silly asshole caricature of my party lmao... these things are not comparable in the slightest.
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