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Behind the Pentagon’s Doctored Ledgers, a Running Tally of Epic Waste
Submitted by Emmett Harris on Tue, 2013-11-19 00:00
For two decades, the U.S. military has been unable to submit to an audit, flouting federal law and concealing waste and fraud totaling billions of dollars.” Wasteful heroics. Part two of an investigative series. Part one is available here.
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If there are any readers out there who join this Reuters writer in wailing and gnashing of teeth over the ideal that "..there should not be this terrible waste in war...", please remember this: War is the Health of the State.
Every "wasted" penny is accounted for. By somebody. S/he who gains from warring and violence.
It's all going as planned. Read this.
Sam
I think this article highlights the degree of incompetence and/or corruption perpetrated by the part of the government supposedly manned by heroes. Bureaucracy gives us incompetence, but I agree with you that the far worse part are the angels of death that profit from the blood money.