$360 Million Lost in Afghanistan

Yahoo news reported the Department of Defense lost $360 million dollars in the couch cushions in Afghanistan. The cash reportedly was spent on buying mercenary tribal support through corrupt contracting. Some of the money was reportedly used to bribe tribe leaders. A small amount went directly to the Taliban. Portions of the money just vanished. What we call stateside as stolen. Keeping perspective the term small by congressional standards could be $100 million. The Taliban you may remember are the bad guys who kill our US Soldiers.

Not quite as much as $800 billion Bush/Cheney 2008 TARP Corporate Welfare or $180 billion Bush 41 Savings and Loan Fiasco but, still a lot of money. Certainly, more than we've spent on Katrina disaster stateside.

We live in twisted world where we pay our enemy more salary than we pay our own troops. The only benefits the Taliban don't seem to qualify for is the GI Bill. Well, I guess they do get hospital care, schools and education free of charge courtesy of Congresses $31 billion dollar spending budget for Afghanistan.

Last year Congress bought Russian made helicopters to give the Afghanistan Military. The Russian made Helo's are preferred to the American Bell manufacturers. The Russian Choppers were selected because they determined to be more user friendly, reliable, better suited to the climate and parts more readily available than American Suppliers. So we're creating jobs for Russians with American tax dollars.

You may remember before our Afghan War the Russians spent a decade trying to defeat the same Taliban that we're supported by Osama Bin Laden and Congressman Charlie Wilson. Doesn't sound like a good plan to me. How about you?

This could be the reason the Afghan War was endured ten years. Nobody would dare win and cut off the cash from America......