Mother Jones – by Bryan Schatz
The Pentagon airlifted Italian goats to Afghanistan as part of a failed $6 million project aimed at boosting the country’s cashmere industry.
That’s one of the latest findings from John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, who testified at a Senate hearing yesterday on the Defense Department’s efforts to boost the Afghan economy at a cost of more than $600 million. SIGAR, Sopko said, “has not been able to find credible evidence showing that TFBSO’s [Task Force for Business and Stability Operations] activities in Afghanistan produced the intended economic growth or stabilization outcomes that justified its creation.”
The Pentagon’s cashmere project entailed importing nine rare blond male goats from Italy, building a farm, and setting up a laboratory to certify the their wool. It’s possible the program created as many as 350 jobs. But according to Sopko, the Pentagon failed to track its spending, and the project’s status is unknown. It remains unclear whether or not the goats were eaten.
Sopko has detailed other examples of waste and unchecked spending in Afghanistan, including $150 million for private security and rented villas for the Pentagon’s business task force, a $47 million “Silicon Valley-type start-up incubator” that “did nothing,” according to the contractor implementing the project, and a $7.5 million project to increase the sales of hand-knotted Afghan carpets. The Pentagon’s business task force “claims to have created nearly 10,000 carpet weaving jobs through this program,” Sopko’s prepared testimony notes, “however our initial analysis has left us questioning the veracity of this figure.”
Sopko’s reports have been leaving lawmakers dumbfounded. At yesterday’s hearing, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) lambasted a $43 million natural gas station that could have been built for $500,000, calling it “dumb on its face.” She noted that the average Afghan earns less annually than it costs to convert a car to run on natural gas.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/afghanistan-pentagon-cashmere-goats-wool-waste
$600 million for a herd of goats. Locals said they “taste like chicken”! Who’s brilliant idea was that and out of that $600 million, how much of that ended up “poof, gone”?
Those goatf#%ckers weren’t honest. They said they’d use sheepskin. 😆
I just can’t take this sht seriously anymore.
Because when you can print money out of thin air and enforce it with a gun.
It’s completely fabricated.
What we’re seeing here is global tyranny.
Thieves fighting over who will control the slaves.
We know there is no honor amongst thieves.
The government is incestually corrupt.
The churches are corrupt .
So where is the problem here if you can print money out of thin air.?
Follow the money.
Then what you’ll find is…
Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew.
In a nut shell, Flee can’t be said any better!