Unused Equipment In Iraq - Stretches back as far as the eye can see

[TheBigotBasher]

Cost Plus contracting for you. Don't think of how many homes that that stuff could have been been used to build.

Republicans should never ever raise "pork spending" as an issue again.

[msongs]

1. plenty of dems voted for this mass stupidity and are still doing so this very fall nt

[arcadian]

2. Somebody's getting rich.

[old mark]

3. Friends of the GOP, no doubt. Sadly, a lot of friends of the Dems, too. nt

[Powdered Toast Man]

11. cough cough Blackwater cough cough... n/t

[Undercurrent]

4. This is one of the reasons that we can't just bug out.

The logistics of moving out all of our equipment (used or unused) in an orderly manner is a time consuming process. Our military has done rapid exits in the past, and they were costly affairs. Dumping helicopters off of aircraft carriers is but one example of a chaotic exit.

[HamdenRice]

5. I posted about the 20,000 supply troops needed to bring stuff home and a DUer wrote saying ...

that he would not consider it a legitimate end of the war unless we left everything behind.

WTF?

A portion of DU has lost it's cotton picking mind.

[Undercurrent]

8. Your kidding?

That's our stuff. Why leave it behind? No logic in that idea. At all. None.

[TheBigotBasher]

7. That stuff is not returning to the US.

If any of it can be used militarily, it may go to Afghnaistan. Th rest, will just rot.

[Undercurrent]

9. It may indeed.

Or go to one of our overseas bases. Never said it would be coming back to the US, just that it takes time to bring our stuff out of country.

[knightinwhitesatin]

13. Most of it will come back

n/t

[timeforpeace]

6. Unused now if a recent image. Doesn't mean unused for the last eight years.

In any event, we're never leaving Iraq. That was the idea.

[cutlassmama]

10. How do you know that? and will the stuff still be used?

[knightinwhitesatin]

12. I hate to be the skunk at the tea party

but you are incorrect. I have been to this FOB, this is the refit/refurbish yard as well as a transhipment point for returning equipment stateside.

It's easy to tell:

all the vehicles on the left hand side with their windshields facing us are vehicles returning to the states. They have their custom stickers on the upperleft side of the windshield. Any Iraq war veteran that has rail loaded or driven vehicles to ports for shipment knows this.

Vehicles on the right hand side of the picture with their truck beds facing towards us are there for refurbishing/refitting.........Again this is easy to deduce, all bumper numbers have been painted over and the ribbing that goes over the bed, the part that holds the canvas has all been taken off.

These vehicles have been used in country and are either returning home or getting refitted with new safety gear, more armor, etc.........