So much for Obama and his infrastructure skills, 100's of millions of US taxpayer dollars wasted in Afghanistan on mismanaged construction, sewage

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Update, 7/30/12, "Millions wasted in Afghan reconstruction projects, finds report," BBC

"Hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars may have been wasted on poorly managed infrastructure projects in Afghanistan, a report to Congress says."...
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7/29/12, "U.S. Says Afghans Abandoned Police Bases," Wall St. Journal, Nathan Hodge

"Inspectors from a U.S. government watchdog agency discovered that several American-funded border police bases in Afghanistan have been largely abandoned or left unoccupied, raising questions about the coming hand-over of security duties to local forces.

Among other findings, inspectors found that one base, Lal Por 2, wasn't being used by Afghan border forces because it had no water supply, a report due out Monday states. A second, Nazyan, "may soon be uninhabitable" because of shoddy construction that caused sewage overflow.

All told, the new report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction found most of the facilities on three ..."...(subscription) via Lucianne

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Commenter to above at Lucianne:

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"Reply 1 - Posted by: SteelTurman, 7/30/2012 12:22:09 AM (No. 8748052)

And we let our sons and daughters die and get maimed for this?

Next stop: Iran."

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