Hemorrhaging Cash: IED (Improvised Explosive Device) that cost less than $20.00 to make takes out vehicle worth over $250,000 dollars – not including cost to ship it over to Afghanistan. Why We Spend $400 per Gallon of Gas in Afghanistan – see report: “Why we spend $400 per gallon for fuel in Afghanistan”*
On June 24, 2014 Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina asked for and received permission to address the United States House of Representatives regarding the war in Afghanistan:
“Mr. Speaker, I want to bring to the attention of the House an article in the Daily Journal Online titled “No End for Afghanistan’s War on the United States Taxpayer”–” No End for Afghanistan’s War on the United States Taxpayer,” which states: John F. Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, known as SIGAR, may have taken Uncle Sam and shaken him by the lapels last month, but the media missed it. Americans, however, need to hear how Sopko, in an address at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C., laid out why Afghanistan remains “relevant”–and a cause for outrage–for every U.S. taxpayer and policymaker. In short, Afghanistan is on life support, and Joe Citizen is its permanent IV.
These are the words of John Sopko. This article goes on to say:
SIGAR, on the job since 2008, has produced 118 audits and inspection reports and made 23 quarterly reports to Congress. Nothing seems to penetrate the Capitol dome, however.
Mr. Speaker, this brings me to a quote by Pat Buchanan, with whom I agree strongly on foreign policy issues:
Is it not a symptom of senility to be borrowing from the world, so we can defend the world?
How appropriate a statement is that? We are a debtor nation that has to borrow money every year to pay the debts of our own Nation, and we borrow money to spend overseas in foreign areas. It makes no sense.
That is why I am so disappointed that, last week, we were unable to put a stop on the waste, fraud, and abuse of the American taxpayer money in Afghanistan”, said Jones (Source: Congressional Record http://thomas.loc.gov/).
See related article: War cost in Afghanistan near “$2 trillion”, says Rep. Cicilline https://groundreport.com/war-cost-in-afghanistan-near-2-trillion-says-rep-cicilline/
See also: US is the largest funding source to the Taliban in Afghanistan http://www.robert-tilford.newsvine.com/_news/2014/05/31/24097362-us-is-the-largest-funding-source-to-the-taliban-in-afghanista
said Rep. Jones (Source: Congressional Record http://thomas.loc.gov/).
See related article: War cost in Afghanistan near “$2 trillion”, says Rep. Cicilline https://groundreport.com/war-cost-in-afghanistan-near-2-trillion-says-rep-cicilline/
See also: US is the largest funding source to the Taliban in Afghanistanhttp://www.robert-tilford.newsvine.com/_news/2014/05/31/24097362-us-is-the-largest-funding-source-to-the-taliban-in-afghanista
See article: *Why We Spend $400 per Gallon of Gas in Afghanistanhttp://www.newser.com/story/134792/in-afghanistan-gas-costing-us-400-per-gallon.html).