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Gangsters, and gas that was stolen from the afghans and from us. >> i just pulled up a couple of examples here. $486 million for death trap aircraft that were later sold for $32,000 and scrap metal. >> thats the famous aircraft that couldnt fly. other than that, they were great airplanes. we decided to buy a navy for a land locked country, but that was okay. theyre really beautiful boats, but they never made it to afghanistan. >> wait, is this the -- i think these were the inflatable boats? $3 m...

For afghanistan reconstruction were quote a death trap. $486 million was spent on worthless planes that no one could fly. we did recoup some f the investment, though, 16 of the 20 planes ended up being sold for scrap for the grand sum of $32,000. thats 6 cents a pound. how many hundreds of millions of dollars did those cost? john sopko reported without fear or favor on for example the $43 million that we spent on a proof of concept gas station in afghanistan. it was a gas station that did not wo...

The man in charge, his assessments have often been brutal. at least theyve been brutally blunt. here, for example, is how propublica wrote up one of his more well-known findings. quote n 2008, the u.s. bought 12 cargo plains. but just about everything you can think of was wrong. there were no spare parts for the planes, for example. the planes were also, according to the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction, quote, a death trap. so $486 million was spent on worthless planes t...

Office figures. were talking some $11.37 billion taken in for the north american box office. those are figures coming from comscore to show the improvement from $11.37 billion last year. and it was a stellar year for disney claiming four of the top five films including "finding dory" with $486 million. and number with, "rogue one a star wars story." and this one is expected to continue to take in revenue since it was just released in december. >> "star wars" seems no stopping to it. still ahea...

Bought or arranged to be procured for this war that are absolutely unneeded. that are in some cases worst than wasteful. for instance, the african training center that melts when it rains. theres a fleet of airplanes we bought for afghanistan for $486 million and ended up sledding into scrap for 6 cents a pound. thats a loss of 99.93% on that investment. and there were the giant incinerators we installed on a u.s. base for $5 million that never incinerated anything because they never worked. so ...