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$500M worth of US-bought planes destroyed by Afghans


Posted: Oct 10, 2014

I guess they needed the money. The money from heroin production apparently wasn't enough.

Link:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/10/500m-worth-us-bought-planes-destroyed-by-afghans-sold-as-scrap-for-6-cents/

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No they didn't. Is Fox deliberately lying or - just plain stupid?

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This little blunder is currently being tossed around like a hot potato between Air Force, Defense Logistics Agency, Department of Defense and Pentagon officials. Try Reuters and Wapo for more reliable info. Guess that makes your little heroin wise crack null and void, doesn't it?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/09/us-usa-afghanistan-idUSKCN0HY2M120141009

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/10/10/u-s-scrapped-486-million-aircraft-fleet-that-taxpayers-bought-for-afghanistan/

If you would only read before pointing fingers. - sm

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Fox reported on the article as written by someone else. A little premature to jump the gun there, aren't you?

What difference does that make? They still published it - under their banner and

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didn't bother making an effort to get the name of the COUNTRY correct before dragging them through the mud. I saw the Washington Free Beacon citation before posting. They are cut from the same cloth and are both equal opportunity yellow journalism offenders the right wing radicals accept as gospel. Bottom line: They both published grossly misinformed information, AKA straight up lies.

Yes, if one of us had posted something - from a questionable source

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and it were incorrect, there would be all sorts of harassment. I would think Fox would be held to a bit higher standard than the occasional blogger.

After further review, the jury is still out on this. - sm

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There are a lot of contradictory stories on this, which, as usual, are divided along partisan lines. No surprise there.

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