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[gorush]

We need to stay the hell out of sandland...and make sure they stay the hell out of here.

[federal__reserve]

Very smart! So we borrow from China, spend it in Iraq, and protect oil supplies to China! Very smart!! Never mind that we will be paying interest for ever to the Chinese because budget surpluses are...well non-existent.

[Makana]

This is outrageous BS. Even in RVN, we shipped back most of our equipment, including expended Arty brass. I know because I helped ship a lot of it.

Given the scrap yards in SE Asia and elsewhere, the scrap metals alone would pay for the shipping.

[Venturer]

It’s worth it just to get the hell out of there.

Anything that can be used as a weapon should be destroyed, leave the rest for them as a good will gesture.

The last plane leaving Iraq with our men should have AMF’s written on the tail.

[jmax]

Why not auction it off to AMERICAN companies and let them pay their own shipping costs? Even if we only got 20 cents on the dollar, that’s a lot of money, considering what’s on the ground over there.

[trapped_in_LA]

Eh, no big deal, it would cost more to ship it back than the stuff is worth so they leave it there for the natives. We dumped far more military hardware into the ocean after WWII than what it sounds like they are talking about here.

[dragnet2]

the Pentagon is simply going to leave millions of pieces of equipment behind, including everything from vehicles and body armor to trailers and air conditioners.

All on the tax payers backs.

The government might as well start strafing us.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

It wouldn’t surprise me a bit if we aren’t still buying stuff for over there.

What really grinds my gears about this is that we make troops pay for lost 782 gear, but then give away what amounts to at least a few brigade sets of equipment - to Iraq.