The US spent $60 billion rebuilding Iraq after the 2003 war. There is virtually nothing to show for the money. Most of the money seems to have been stolen by US defense contractors.

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[–]Kubrickian 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Bought Dick Cheney a really nice 400 acre ranch in Taos NM though...

[–]wuzizname 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nah that was 100% financed by his “book deal” and those “speaking fees”.

[–]AcceleratedWallops 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Pentagon has trillions of dollars of "accounting errors" all the damn time.

The military industrial complex is a thief.

[–]wuzizname 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why do you think they were so pissed Trump didn’t start any more wars and why Iran has been in the news so much lately?

[–]HibikiBlackCaudillo[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A lot of people know that the US uses a lot of tax money on military budget so I think this is a good historical record of how that money was used by the government.

The US spent $60 billion rebuilding Iraq after the 2003 war. There is virtually nothing to show for the money. Most of the money seems to have been stolen by US defense contractors.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We knew that was happening as it happened.

[–]wristaction 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

And they don't even hate Iran for us in exchange for our "help".

May as well add that $60bil to the cost of being a colony of Israel.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They didn't see a penny of that so why should they like you for it.

Rather it paid for private security firms to drive around in armored cars living it up.

I heard one story that a firm had a tank stuck in a traffic jam and they got bored of waiting so just drove over all the cars in front of them. That kind of behaviour doesn't win hearts and minds.