The heading describes the unfathomable theft of American taxpayer dollars in the Iraq War that this article in Rolling Stone details. You've probably heard scant details of the endemic of fraud, corruption and graft that is occuring there, but the real picture is probably even worse than this article indicates.
Excerpts:
The jury disagreed, finding Custer Battles guilty of ripping off taxpayers. But the verdict was set aside by T.S. Ellis III, a federal judge who cited the administration's "the CPA is not us" argument. The very fact that private contractors, aided by the government itself, could evade conviction for what even Ellis, a Reagan-appointed judge, called "significant" evidence of fraud, says everything you need to know about the true nature of the war we are fighting in Iraq. Is it really possible to bilk American taxpayers for repainted forklifts stolen from Iraqi Airways and claim that you were just following orders? It is, when your commander in chief is George W. Bush.
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That was how America fought terrorism in Iraq: It hired civilian air-conditioning techs to fix Humvees using the instruction manual while the real Humvee repairmen, earning a third of what the helpless civilians were paid, drove around in circles outside the wire waiting to get blown up by insurgents.
And here's the money quote:
Sixty years after America liberated Europe, those are just words, and words don't pay the bills.