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US seeking buyers for old military equipment
AP ^ | 3/31/2014 | KATHY GANNON

Posted on 03/31/2014 11:48:52 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse

The United States is trying to sell or dispose of billions of dollars in military hardware, including sophisticated and highly specialized mine resistant vehicles as it packs up to leave Afghanistan after 13 years of war, officials said Monday.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; mrap; pakistan
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If Karzai wants them , let him buy them at top dollar , he can afford them , with all his drug money . Otherwise , to hel with that rat . Sell them to India , our only true friend in the region .
1 posted on 03/31/2014 11:48:53 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse

They can always donate it to Ukraine since they do give russia military equipment for FREE!


2 posted on 04/01/2014 12:57:52 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: LeoWindhorse

I’m sure law enforcement agencies across the U.S. could put them to use (not that I support that).


3 posted on 04/01/2014 1:14:22 AM PDT by Washi (Stop Obama's War On Jobs)
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Swords to plowshares. This stuff should be returned to tax paying farmers or something.


4 posted on 04/01/2014 1:34:30 AM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Maybe those “dirt poor” opium poppy farmers could use some of that heavy equipment.


5 posted on 04/01/2014 2:05:27 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Local police all over the nation are buying MRAPs cheap (Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected) vehicles.

Not.....a......good.....thing. At all. DHS also has them.

6 posted on 04/01/2014 2:34:08 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: LeoWindhorse

Sell? Those greedy capitalists. Just give it all to the New Black Panthers. /s


7 posted on 04/01/2014 2:46:22 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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To: Right Wing Assault

Acorn....


8 posted on 04/01/2014 2:52:25 AM PDT by SirFishalot
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To: SkyPilot
picture

One thing leads to another


9 posted on 04/01/2014 3:48:47 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: from occupied ga

Military vehicles are frequently sold to local county highway departments to be used for highway and road maintenance. Our county recently purchased a number of the specialized vehicles which have since been converted for such purposes. While the fuel consumptions of the used military vehicles are much higher than the standard “commercial” type trucks, the military vehicle cost (to the counties and being much less than a new truck) makes them very desirable for purchase versus buying a “new” truck. I’d say give/sell them to the counties for their use and purposes, thus saving tack payers billions of dollars. Indeed it would hurt “new” truck sales over time but in the long run may prove to be a better deal.


10 posted on 04/01/2014 4:44:03 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Progov
Military vehicles are frequently sold to local county highway departments to be used for highway and road maintenance

I'm not altogether sure how armored personnel carriers (MRAPS) can be used for highway maintenance. Perhaps you could explain how the vehicle shown in post #6 could be used for that purpose.

11 posted on 04/01/2014 4:48:04 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/dak/cto/4374509013.html


12 posted on 04/01/2014 5:08:07 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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We could use pothole resistant vehicles in Minnesota right now.

(different kind of landmines courtesy of our leftist insurgents.)


13 posted on 04/01/2014 5:09:25 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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We could use pothole resistant vehicles in Minnesota right now.

We could use a few pothole resistant vehicles here too. Atlanta city government's primary role is to provide as many jobs/transfer payments as possible for otherwise unemployable blacks so as to keep them voting for the black democrats who run for office. With this primary goal, there isn't a whole lot of money left over for actual services.

14 posted on 04/01/2014 5:18:54 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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“If Karzai wants them, let him buy them at top dollar…”

Buy? The Caped Marvel has outright stolen or otherwise scarfed a fortune in US assets. His drug money? My conclusion is that the civilian side of ISAF governments are directly/indirectly complicit in Afghan heroin trafficking into their countries. Mexican heroin aside, how else how to account for US presence in Afghanistan running some parallel to increased domestic use of heroin?
Forget democracy, it rots my socks that our military may have been obligated to “Making Poppy Fields Safe for Dealers”.

Afghans can go play buzkashi using Karzai’s pie hat. Whether he’s still attached to it is up to them.

Simply put, India is very much less than appreciated by the US. US and India may have a way to go before declaring “friendship” in any genuine sense, but well worth mutual efforts. Check out a map of the region.


15 posted on 04/01/2014 5:52:33 AM PDT by Huaynero
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To: SkyPilot
A little sugar in the fuel tank would fix that rascal right up..!

You'll need to plan ahead some...

16 posted on 04/01/2014 6:03:16 AM PDT by unread (Rescind the 17th. Amendment...bring the power BACK to the states...!)
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To: LeoWindhorse

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138872/posts

USS Miami...an inglorious end. ;(


17 posted on 04/01/2014 6:09:10 AM PDT by Daffynition ("If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." ~ Henry Ford)
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They could have cut it up for culvert piping and sold it to county highway departments. (grin)


18 posted on 04/01/2014 6:45:15 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: LeoWindhorse
Dismantling the USA Military is part of "TRANSFORMATION" that our national clown ran on, so I would conclude the majority of America (53% in 2012) supports this action.


19 posted on 04/01/2014 6:52:15 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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Sell them to the Texas State Guard and other State Guards in the South.

Unlike the National Guard, it doesn’t answer to the feds.


20 posted on 04/01/2014 7:18:08 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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