We've spent $109 Billion to rebuild Afghanistan, but it didn't work. Wanna know why?

[Scuba]

[ProdigalJunkMail]

1. ain't that the damned truth...

just wasteful and corrupt... the whole damnable process...

sP

[DisgustipatedinCA]

2. Recommended.

[truedelphi]

3. Any moment now, Di Feinstein will be moving into a new

Thirty two million dollar mansion.

The one she obtained from her hubby's war contracts in Iraq, it is just so 2007.

Time for an update!

[BrotherIvan]

6. A Loathsome Woman

I have never voted for her, but she keeps getting in. I wonder why? Both of our senators should be so much better.

[Initech]

4. To quote Ken Jeong in the Hangover: "Quid pro quo, douchebags!"

Seriously how can they keep getting away with this? It's criminal.

[navarth]

5. kicking because it's the fucking truth. nt

[ReRe]

7. Bait....

... and switch!

[madokie]

8. I'd say most if not all have ties to the puke party

[blkmusclmachine]

9. CEOs make "a killing" of our murderous misadventures wherever we go. Nothing new about that.

Death = Profit

Ka-ching!

[Thinkingabout]

10. I would be more concerned with Halliburton or KBR receiving the $109 billion

To "rebuild" Afghanistan. KBR got a no bid contract to give assistance in Iraq and Afghanistan and Dick Cheney is still involved with his old company. This is the company stealing us blind on these contracts.

[Leith]

11. Don't Forget Eric Prince

and his private army that changes its name every couple of years.

[Thinkingabout]

18. Like Blackwater, all connected.

[moondust]

12. Nye Committee, 1934

Nye created headlines by drawing connections between the wartime profits of the banking and munitions industries to America's involvement in World War I.

~

...Senator Nye, many war critics, and members of the American public concluded that the US entered the war for reasons of profit, not policy...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nye_Committee

[libdem4life]

13. Facts. So very tacky. Truth is, we wouldn't have an "economy" without the "incursions".

And yes, they are ALL in on it. The National Invisible Elephant in The Room.

[rickyhall]

14. What I told my friends a decade ago

W's invasion is simply robbery and it was just what I thought it was. I remember the stories about pallets of cash. They borrowed the money from our Social Security Trust Fund and that's why they want to destroy it so they can complete the theft. Republicans are quite simply white collar criminals. Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel and Billy Sol Estes would have admired these bastards.

[elehhhhna]

21. war is always about theft. always.

[mopinko]

26. yup yup. pallets of cash. the "northern alliance"

was nothing but bribery. those pallets were dropped in the desert, along with cia phones for the old enemies to call in jdams on each other.
in return, they let us run right through the country, then they graciously accepted a cut of the loot.

as it ever was.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. Next up: How much America spends on health care.

[valerief]

16. That's what war is for--LOOTING. nt

[nikto]

17. America's war$ now are all about PROFIT, not freedom

Pretty obvious fact.


Oh, and 1+1=2.

[rhett o rick]

19. And our Congress won't do a thing about it. nm

[Andy823]

22. Exactly

And that's why we need to get rid of them, no matter how long it takes, we need to vote out the ones who work for the corporations, who are bought and paid for by those corporations, and we need to replace them with people who will put and end to this crap. No matter who we put in the WH, congress is still in control of keeping the gravy train going.

I know their are politicians on both sides who are guilty, but the majority I believe are republicans, and we need to get them out of office as soon as possible while finding people to run during the democratic primaries who can replace those on our side who need to be removed also.

It won't happen over night, but it can happen!

[pscot]

27. It's an inside job

"Our" congress is in on it.

[Uncle Joe]

20. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Scuba.

[malaise]

23. Looting government is big business

It's beginning to look like government by mercenaries.

[DhhD]

24. Big business in Texas too. Democratic government moved out of Texas in the 1990s for

the Evil Crime Family (moving from governor over Texas to Commander in Chief over Afghanistan):

http://www.txpeer.org/Bush/Public_Land.html

[DhhD]

25. Weapons of Mass Destruction Types, Still Deceiving Texans.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/107820018

[DhhD]

28. No Bid Contracts is the way the Bush Administration did business.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251373752

[malaise]

29. Very true

One day someone will analyze the impact of having poppy - the head of the CIA - as President of the United States. And before that he was Reagan's VP.

[Ezlivin]

30. Greg Abbott will be the next governor

Damn. I'm a member of Battleground Texas and a big supporter of Wendy Davis. My spouse works with her campaign.

But voter apathy among Democrats is pretty high. Unless every single Democrat votes like his/her life depends upon it, Abbott will take the election.

It's not that we don't have enough people on our side, it's that those people feel that it won't matter. Living in the gerrymandered districts it's easy to believe you're the only liberal alive.

Despite my fears I'll haul my wheelchair down to the polls and vote like I always do.

[sylvanus]

31. Mission Accomplished banner was correct,

For all the neo-con war profiteers, Iraq and Afghanistan are
a complete success story. A huge transfer of wealth and
Americans waved their flags and smiled the smile of the ignorant.

[DeSwiss]

32. I already know:

- K&R

[hifiguy]

33. "War is a racket." Gen. Smedley Butler

K and effin' R

[cheapdate]

34. Good post.

[gtar100]

35. K&R... big time!

Makes it obvious that there is no God of justice watching over this world. Same shit has been happening for a long, long time here and a lot of good, decent people have been killed off by greedy, selfish assholes with impunity the whole time. This world would be paradise without them. But they've got the majority convinced that life is about suffering and the great reward is after we die. Meanwhile there seems to be an endless supply of assholes willing to take away from the masses of people so they can enjoy their own little paradise at the expense of all the others. Makes me hope for a much larger purpose that does lead to real justice but I've yet to see any proof that this Earth is going to be anything but a place of wretched poverty for the vast majority of people.

[Boom Sound 416]

36. What is the "this"?

[Enthusiast]

37. Yes, but, those private defense contractors are job creators.

Patriotic too!

[woo me with science]

38. kick!

[Initech]

39. And not only that, the money is untaxed and unaccounted for.

And they won't stop either. They're wealth addicted crooks.

[indepat]

40. This screams to the world "the bidness of America is bidness" and that Uncle Sam

will willy-nilly pour unlimited funds into the coffers of business enterprises neither expecting nor demanding anything of real value in return, to wit: an astonishing malfeasance and misfeasance of unparalleled magnitude perpetrated on society and the nation.

[woo me with science]

41. kick