US 'wasted $30bn on Afghanistan and Iraq' over decade (BBC)

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

29 August 2011 Last updated at 22:57 GMT

US 'wasted $30bn on Afghanistan and Iraq' over decade

By Kim Ghattas
BBC News, Washington

The US government has wasted $30bn (£18bn) in contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq over the last decade, according to a bi-partisan spending commission.

The commission on wartime contracting blamed an over-reliance on contractors, poor planning and fraud for the waste.

It had evidence of lax accountability and inadequate competition, it said.

Writing in the Washington Post, the report's authors warn that investments in the two countries could be wasted even after US involvement there ends.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14712172

Related: Reducing waste in wartime contracts - Washington Post

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Only $30 billion?

[Broderick]

1. wasted billions more than that

but they will tell us differently as they distract us with a tropical storm. We are fat, dumb and lazy. The empire ought crumble. It's long overdue.

[xchrom]

2. The Taliban will be the government again.

Then what?

[Fool Count]

3. If only. That would have been the best bargain in the history

of government contracting and procurement. Only getting troops, machinery and material in and out of there probably cost
at least five times that. If that's not a waste I don't know what is.

[Fumesucker]

4. That's damn near a rounding error on what's been wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan..

The whole fucking thing was a waste from beginning to end.

[indepat]

5. Would argue that most monies expended in Afghanistan have been wasted since

OBL escaped into Pakistan, not to mention the lives snuffed out, the brains disarranged, the limbs blown off, and other catastrophic bodily injuries. :patriot:

[Motown_Johnny]

6. On Contracts...... not on the wars...... $30 Billion in wasted contracts