Worst Examples of Taxpayer Money Wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan -- AllGovWhen the U.S. government wasted somewhere between $30 billion and $60 billion on contracts for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, it did so in a variety of ways.
For example, the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) in 2005 hired Supreme Foodservice of Switzerland to ship “vitally needed” food to bases in Afghanistan. Among the $4.2 billion billed to the Pentagon were hundreds of millions of dollars in possible overcharges for providing “premium airlift” of fresh fruits and vegetables from the United Arab Emirates, among other things. Still, the company got a two-year extension on its contract, while Robert Dail, the Army general who was in command of the DLA contract became president of the company’s U.S. division four months after he retired from the Army.
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My Comment: From combat to commerce .... where is the motivation to end these wars?
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