One cost of war: U.S. blowing up its own Humvees

[twomp]

The United States is spending millions of dollars to destroy U.S. equipment in Iraq and Syria — gear the U.S. gave the Iraqi military that was later captured by ISIS forces.

The U.S has hit 41 Humvees since attacks began in August, according to data from United States Central Command.

The U.S. is sending $30,000-bombs to eliminate these armored vehicles, which cost about a quarter of a million dollars each depending what it is equipped with, according to Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

The U.S. Defense Department confirmed the targets to CNN. "In some cases, we have seen instances of ISIL capturing and employing U.S.-made equipment," said a spokesperson. "When we've seen these terrorists employing this equipment, we've sought to eliminate that threat."

Once the U.S. destroys the equipment, it might have to re-supply the Iraqi military.

"If we want them [the Iraqi military] to be able to secure their own borders in the long run, we're going to have to re-equip them," said Harrison. "So we'll be buying another Humvee and sending it back to the Iraqi military.''

http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/25/news...vee/index.html

[alucard13mm]

It is interesting how we spent billions of dollars training and equiping the iraqi military only to have sunni and many of the soldiers flee and leave the gear behind.

Now we are training Syria rebels... who are on the losing side of the war with weapons and gear. haha. Good god.

[TheTexan]

"So we'll be buying another Humvee and sending it back to the Iraqi military.''

We should probably buy extras, in case police departments need any more surplus.

[ChristianAnarchist]

It is interesting how we spent billions of dollars training and equiping the iraqi military only to have sunni and many of the soldiers flee and leave the gear behind.

Now we are training Syria rebels... who are on the losing side of the war with weapons and gear. haha. Good god.

The definition of insanity...

[Origanalist]

The definition of insanity...

These people define insanity

[kpitcher]

Bill Maher had a good opening dialog about bombing our own crap.. said the US police departments may have to use last year's model of tanks.

[Dr.3D]

Bill Maher had a good opening dialog about bombing our own crap.. said the US police departments may have to use last year's model of tanks.

Maybe the police departments will have to give back those vehicles so they can be sent to Iraq.

[phill4paul]

Keep paying your Federal income tax or take a stand. I'll not pay for this ^^^^. You shouldn't either.

[puppetmaster]

Lol equipment captured......you mean supplied to.....

[osan]

http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/25/news...vee/index.html

Meh... what could go wrong?

[Tinnuhana]

The Broken Humvee Fallacy?

[Ronin Truth]

Our tax dollars at work, blowing up others of our tax dollars at work. What is wrong with this picture (other than our tax dollars at work)?

[acptulsa]

Our tax dollars at work, blowing up others of our tax dollars at work. What is wrong with this picture (other than our tax dollars at work)?

What could be wrong with it?

We give a foreign land better vehicles than our cops get, they give them away to the bad guys du jour, and the MIC gets to sell a new Tomahawk for each one (more if a few miss) and replacements too. The replacements are important because we need them given to the bad guys as well.

They say idle hands are the devil's workshop, and we don't need the devil setting up a workshop in the military. Can't have it.

It might compete with the MIC.

[Acala]

Mission accomplished. And I don't mean that facetiously. This is the ultimate MIC dream: trick the taxpayers into funding the equippment for BOTH sides of a war.

[enhanced_deficit]

97.5% voters on this forum who voted in below poll showed excellent foresight a year ago:

Will Neocons-Al Qaeda alliance end well?


Why DSD puppet masters did not see this coming... or they did see this coming and things are going according to plans?