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Thursday, June 4, 2015

American weapons INADVERTENTLY fall in to the hands of ISIS

http://news.yahoo.com/fog-war-u-armed-isis-103000106.html?soc_src=copy

     "INADVERTENTLY" being the operative word here! I am so sick and tired of the government being behind things that "inadvertently" happen... The last one was "live anthrax" being inadvertently sent to labs when it was supposed to be the "dead" virus
     The latest:
According to Reuters, the U.S.-made weaponry that fell into enemy hands including 2,300 Humvee armored vehicles, at least 40 M1A1 main battle tanks, 74,000 machine guns, and as many as 52 M198 howitzer mobile gun systems, plus small arms and ammunition.

     What that means: Not in terms of fire power that we have now supplied ISIS with but lets look past that:
2,300 Humvee armored vehicles @ $70,000 per - Total: $16 million
40 M1A1 Abram tanks @ $4.3 million per - Total: $172 million
52 M198 Howitzer mobile gun systems @ $527,337 per - Total: $2.7 million
74,000 Army machine guns @ $4,000 per - Total: $29 million
The grand total comes to $219.7 million

 So not only are we "inadvertently" supplying ISIS with weapons and fire power to use against the U.S. and allied forces, it is also a minimum of $219.7 million government waste. I know in the grand scheme of things with deficits being in the TRILLIONS of dollars $219.7 million may not seem like all that high of a cost waste but really, every dollar counts. 
 
     Now lets deal with "INADVERTENTLY"

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