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January 21, 2016 at 12:42 am
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35368827

Quote:US wasted millions on Afghan reconstruction, says watchdog

Quote:The $6m ($4.2m) initiative saw a small herd of rare blond Italian goats imported - but Mr Sopko said oversight was so ineffective he could not be sure that the goats were not eaten.



Okay - that's one I hadn't heard before.
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January 21, 2016 at 2:58 am
I heard that on the Beeb tonight on the way home from work.

What do you want to bet that a good half of that money funded poppies producing heroin for the American market?

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January 21, 2016 at 3:28 am
(January 21, 2016 at 2:58 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I heard that on the Beeb tonight on the way home from work.

What do you want to bet that a good half of that money funded poppies producing heroin for the American market?
That's why we invaded Afghanistan in the first place.
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RE: Tell us something we don't know....
January 21, 2016 at 4:30 am
rare...blond...Italian...goats...

Sorry, I don't know how to process that.

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January 21, 2016 at 6:41 am
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RE: Tell us something we don't know....
January 21, 2016 at 7:25 am
Sorry, but why the fuck were they sending goats to Afghanistan? It's a fucking shithole, of course the locals are going to slaughter and eat them. If we're going to send anything at all it should be food and medicine.
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January 21, 2016 at 9:27 pm


This is probably the best documentary giving the real life conditions of the money we've wasted in Afghanistan and how corrupt and backwards that country is. Warning, it's not exactly going to make you feel good about yourself.
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January 21, 2016 at 10:07 pm
(January 21, 2016 at 7:25 am)Bella Morte Wrote: Sorry, but why the fuck were they sending goats to Afghanistan? It's a fucking shithole, of course the locals are going to slaughter and eat them. If we're going to send anything at all it should be food and medicine.

We did send food ... five goats, at a cost of six million dollars.

/Pentagonanswers

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January 21, 2016 at 10:08 pm
High price call girls for the Taliban?

Doesn't that violate international law?

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January 21, 2016 at 11:58 pm
If the blond goats were considered attractive, they might not have been eaten.

They are probably 'working goats' now, if you catch my drift . . .
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