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enhanced_deficit
01-30-2014, 06:54 PM
Way to go SWC surge/drone team:

U.S. Has No Idea How Much Aid To The Afghan Government Is Being Stolen

An IG report on Afghan aid and an interview with a terrorist suspect show why the U.S. is a long way from ending the war on terror
By Massimo Calabresi (http://swampland.time.com/author/calabresim/) Jan. 30, 2014

None of the Afghan ministries that have been receiving $1.6 billion in foreign aid from U.S. taxpayers are currently able “to manage and account for funds,” a report (http://www.sigar.mil/pdf/Audits/SIGAR-14-32-AR.pdf) [pdf] from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) concluded on Thursday.
The condemnation of American aid safeguards points to yet another challenge the U.S. will face as it tries to pivot away from the war on terror. Obama reined in drone strikes in 2013 and is negotiating with Congress a draft replacement of its 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force against al Qaeda and its allies. He is also overseeing the wind down of the military detention of terrorist suspects, taking steps towards closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay and negotiating the final handover of prisoners held by the U.S. at a military facility outside Kabul.
In Afghanistan, he plans to withdraw all combat troops by the end of the year, while continuing foreign aid. But the SIGAR report found that USAID hadn’t required the Afghan government to implement the vast majority of the safeguards the aid agency and others had come up with after previous reviews. Says John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, “Our military presence may be getting smaller but there are billions of dollars in the pipeline for reconstruction. Now more than ever we need greater vigilance to ensure that American taxpayers aren’t fleeced.”
Last May, President Obama declared that the war on terrorism, “like all wars, must end” and he echoed that sentiment in his State of the Union speech last Tuesday, declaring that, “America must move off a permanent war footing.” A key element to that effort, he said Tuesday, is “building the capacity of our foreign partners.”



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Henry Rogue
01-30-2014, 10:36 PM
One hundred percent is stolen from us by our government and the federal reserve.

Brian4Liberty
01-30-2014, 11:08 PM
Here's the accounting: Print the money (JP Morgan or Goldman Sachs gets a percent commission for issuing debt), give one half to crony US corporatists, give the other half to corrupt cronies in Afghanistan.

enhanced_deficit
01-31-2014, 07:34 PM
At least they got roads.


After billions in US investment, Afghan roads are falling apart (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/after-billions-in-us-investment-afghan-roads-are-falling-apart/2014/01/30/9bd07764-7986-11e3-b1c5-739e63e9c9a7_story.html)Washington Post-9 hours ago
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enhanced_deficit
02-02-2014, 10:06 PM
And this is the "gratitude" from Afghans for all the Freedom operations done there:



Afghan president ‘scorns’ UK dead (http://www.nation.com.pk/national/03-Feb-2014/afghan-president-scorns-uk-dead)

‘America has left me with a mess. I can’t wait to go’

February 03, 2014

LONDON - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been accused of ‘spitting on the graves’ of British soldiers after he said Helmand would have been better off if the UK forces had never set foot there.
In an interview with The Sunday Times, Karzai described the Taliban as ‘brothers’ and America as ‘rivals’ as he criticised the record of the West during the 12-year war.

In contrast to British Prime Minister David Cameron’s recent claim that it was ‘mission accomplished’ for troops in Afghanistan, Karzai said that “the US-led NATO mission in terms of bringing security has not been successful, particularly in Helmand.”
Asked whether it would have been better if British troops had never gone there, Karzai replied, “I guess so. Yes.”
A total of 447 British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan and more than 2,000 wounded. The families of servicemen who died there reacted with outrage to Karzai’s comments.

The president of Afghanistan has not spoken to his American counterpart since June, he said, in the interview which showed the increasing gulf between Kabul and Washington.

“This whole 12 years was one of constant pleading with America to treat the lives of our civilians as lives of people,” he said, adding that he had not spoken to Obama since June.

“We met in South Africa [at Mandela’s funeral] but didn’t speak. Letters have been exchanged.”
Karzai said that he ‘saw no good’ in the American presence in his country. “They did not work for me, they worked against me,” he said.
Responding to a question, the Afghan president said “America has left me with a mess. I can’t wait to go”
His rhetoric has been ill received in Washington, where American politicians are ever more infuriated by Hami Karzai’s stance.

KCIndy
02-02-2014, 10:10 PM
Hey, c'mon, it's only money... Money stolen at gunpoint from folks all across the U.S.

There's more where that came from, after all.

idiom
02-02-2014, 10:26 PM
http://i.imgur.com/C0lsFrH.jpg

AuH20
02-02-2014, 11:07 PM
I wish I could place a big question mark on my 1099, but I have strange suspicion it wouldn't go over as well.

AngryCanadian
02-03-2014, 12:26 AM
Just like how NATO and how its Grand Intervention have left the Balkans completely in Ruins.
Dont believe me? your welcome to visit it.

Why you think the MSM are both ignoring the post war effects?

oyarde
02-03-2014, 12:32 AM
Way to go SWC surge/drone team:

U.S. Has No Idea How Much Aid To The Afghan Government Is Being Stolen

An IG report on Afghan aid and an interview with a terrorist suspect show why the U.S. is a long way from ending the war on terror
By Massimo Calabresi (http://swampland.time.com/author/calabresim/) Jan. 30, 2014

None of the Afghan ministries that have been receiving $1.6 billion in foreign aid from U.S. taxpayers are currently able “to manage and account for funds,” a report (http://www.sigar.mil/pdf/Audits/SIGAR-14-32-AR.pdf) [pdf] from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) concluded on Thursday.
The condemnation of American aid safeguards points to yet another challenge the U.S. will face as it tries to pivot away from the war on terror. Obama reined in drone strikes in 2013 and is negotiating with Congress a draft replacement of its 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force against al Qaeda and its allies. He is also overseeing the wind down of the military detention of terrorist suspects, taking steps towards closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay and negotiating the final handover of prisoners held by the U.S. at a military facility outside Kabul.
In Afghanistan, he plans to withdraw all combat troops by the end of the year, while continuing foreign aid. But the SIGAR report found that USAID hadn’t required the Afghan government to implement the vast majority of the safeguards the aid agency and others had come up with after previous reviews. Says John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, “Our military presence may be getting smaller but there are billions of dollars in the pipeline for reconstruction. Now more than ever we need greater vigilance to ensure that American taxpayers aren’t fleeced.”
Last May, President Obama declared that the war on terrorism, “like all wars, must end” and he echoed that sentiment in his State of the Union speech last Tuesday, declaring that, “America must move off a permanent war footing.” A key element to that effort, he said Tuesday, is “building the capacity of our foreign partners.”



U.S. Has No Idea How Much Aid To The Afghan Government Is Being Stolen | TIME.com (http://swampland.time.com/2014/01/30/two-reasons-its-hard-to-end-the-war-on-terror/#ixzz2rvu19FnE) http://swampland.time.com/2014/01/30/two-reasons-its-hard-to-end-the-war-on-terror/




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This has been going on so long , they have never known , except for the cases full of cash stolen from tax payers that went directly to the Afghan govt ( they do know that amount )