Sequestration: U.S. Spends $288 Million On Ammunition For Afghan National Police

Freedom Outpost ^ | Apr. 3, 2013 | Tim Brown

[EXCH54FE]

Despite the fearmongering over sequestration, it is only the deicisions of the Obama administration as to what they cut and what they don’t that are troubling. One of the biggest issues to come out of the administration was the Department of Homeland Security releasing hundreds of illegals who were also convicted felons. They later admitted they didn’t have to do that. However, according to a detailed quarterly report, issued by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the U.S. government is giving away $288 million of our tax dollars to supply the Afghan National Police (ANP), the ones who are engaging in killing our troops after they are trained, with ammunition.

Not only has the U.S. spent more than $366 million on weapons for the ANP, but the government intends to spend another $14.2 million arming them.

In addition, $3.4 billion has been spent on equipment and transportation, including weapons for the ANP. According to the report, “most of these funds were used to purchase weapons and related equipment, vehicles, and communications equipment.”

The report details the wasted tax dollars on the ANP. “SIGAR’s audit of ANP vehicle maintenance found that the United States spent $6.8 million over 17 months to maintain vehicles that had already been destroyed,” the report reads.

The U.S. is expected to spend another $19.4 million on vehicles for the ANP.

Sigar’s reports also pointed out that “a U.S.-funded Afghan Border Police Company headquarters was sitting largely unused,” which raised concerns “about the long-term usability and sustainability of an ANP provincial headquarters.”

This isn’t all. The Washington Free Beacon reports,

[EXCH54FE]

The most reprehensible part of this is we are being told that our own military are having to tighten their budgeting belts, while those that would seek to do us harm are given billions of Americans’ hard earned tax dollars. When I think of what this actually is, the “T” word crosses my mind, what about yours?

[Wolfie]

We’re fighting terrorism, doncha know.

[Pollster1]

Is that why we can’t get ammo here - because Obama is sending it to people that he hopes will use it on their American trainers?

[Jack Hammer]

Not surprisingly, Obama is treating sequestation as yet another opportunity to sh*t on America.

[Dick Bachert]

C’mon guys. How the hell else can our Afghan “partners” shoot OUR GUYS in the back without ammo?

Geezzz.

[Red in Blue PA]

Let them learn to reload.

Can they produce anything but opium?