$80 Billion Military Budget Fraud
Last week in Baghdad, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters the U.S. has no "exit strategy", just a "victory strategy", and he was not joking.
Last week the House quietly passed $81 Billion in emergency supplemental military funding for military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan. The media spin: the money is going to support our troops and provide for training and armoured equipment needs.
The reality: Included in the request is money to construct 14 "enduring" military bases in Iraq. The new U.S. military bases in Iraq will likely be built by Halliburton which will receive at least $6 billion dollars if the new funding is approved.
Interesting codicil: The planned locations for the new bases extend coverage of a line created by the existing bases. That line is the path of the oil pipeline currently being constructed through Afghanistan and Iraq.
Meanwhile, The US will also set up 10 new bases in Afghanistan in the provinces of Helmand, Herat, Nimrouz, Balkh, Khost and Paktia. Bringing the know total of Afghan bases to 15. $83 million is earmarked to upgrade two major Afghan bases at Bagram BAF north of Kabul and Kandahar KAF.
Four bases currently under construction: The new NATO base in Herat, which is in western Afghanistan neat Shindand Air Force Base SAF; one in the southern province of Kandahar; one in the southeastern city of Gardez in Paktia province;and one in Mazar-i-Sharif, the northern city controlling the main route to central Afghanistan.
Four additional bases in Eurasia: Manas outside Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan where 3,000 US troops are based; Qarshi Hanabad air base in Uzbekistan which holds about 1,500 US troops; and Dalbandin and Shahbaz air fields in Pakistan.
Interesting codicil: During the US occupation of Afghanistan, in 2003, US occupied Afghanistan produced 4,200 tons of opium. In 2004, US occupied and semi-democratic Afghanistan produced a record 4,950 tons, breaking the all-time high of 4,600 tons produced under the Taliban in the year 2000.
Question: Why don't we use the money from the oil and opium sales to pay for the new bases? And where is that money going?
Eurasian Bases
Last week the House quietly passed $81 Billion in emergency supplemental military funding for military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan. The media spin: the money is going to support our troops and provide for training and armoured equipment needs.
The reality: Included in the request is money to construct 14 "enduring" military bases in Iraq. The new U.S. military bases in Iraq will likely be built by Halliburton which will receive at least $6 billion dollars if the new funding is approved.
Interesting codicil: The planned locations for the new bases extend coverage of a line created by the existing bases. That line is the path of the oil pipeline currently being constructed through Afghanistan and Iraq.
Meanwhile, The US will also set up 10 new bases in Afghanistan in the provinces of Helmand, Herat, Nimrouz, Balkh, Khost and Paktia. Bringing the know total of Afghan bases to 15. $83 million is earmarked to upgrade two major Afghan bases at Bagram BAF north of Kabul and Kandahar KAF.
Four bases currently under construction: The new NATO base in Herat, which is in western Afghanistan neat Shindand Air Force Base SAF; one in the southern province of Kandahar; one in the southeastern city of Gardez in Paktia province;and one in Mazar-i-Sharif, the northern city controlling the main route to central Afghanistan.
Four additional bases in Eurasia: Manas outside Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan where 3,000 US troops are based; Qarshi Hanabad air base in Uzbekistan which holds about 1,500 US troops; and Dalbandin and Shahbaz air fields in Pakistan.
Interesting codicil: During the US occupation of Afghanistan, in 2003, US occupied Afghanistan produced 4,200 tons of opium. In 2004, US occupied and semi-democratic Afghanistan produced a record 4,950 tons, breaking the all-time high of 4,600 tons produced under the Taliban in the year 2000.
Question: Why don't we use the money from the oil and opium sales to pay for the new bases? And where is that money going?
Eurasian Bases
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