U.S.'s Afghan Headache: $400-a-Gallon Gas

America should have never been in Afghanistan to begin with.The only country the american military should be in is america.

Afghanistan was won under Bush and lost under Obama. Under Bush we had one civilian worker per 10 soldiers. Under Obama we have 3 civilian workers for every solider --- all at high pay, and you wonder why the war cost so much?

I doubt if the gasoline is really $400.00 a gallon any more than the cute libeal accounting tricks of 10,000 dollar hammers under Regan.

Jeremy Scahill reported in June 2010:
According to new statistics released by the
Pentagon, with Barack Obama as commander-
in-chief, there has been a 23% increase in
the number of “Private Security Contractors” working for the Department of Defense
in Iraq in the second quarter of 2009 and a
29% increase in Afghanistan, which “correlates
to the buildup of forces” in the country.
In Iraq, the Pentagon attributes the increase
to better accounting. But, these numbers relate
explicitly to DoD security contractors.
Companies like Blackwater and its successor
Triple Canopy work on State Department
contracts and it is unclear if these contractors
are included in the overall statistics. This
means, the number of individual “security”
contractors could be quite higher, as could
the scope of their expansion.
Overall, contractors

Meanwhile, the overall number of civilian
employees in the Defense Department has risen
under President Obama. The number of full-time
equivalent employees has increased from a peak
of about 665,000 under President Bush to an estimated 760,000 under President Obama for the
year 2011

http://www.independent.org/pdf/policy_reports...

Gimpyolman wrote:

Afghanistan was won under Bush and lost under Obama. Under Bush we had one civilian worker per 10 soldiers. Under Obama we have 3 civilian workers for every solider --- all at high pay, and you wonder why the war cost so much?
I doubt if the gasoline is really $400.00 a gallon any more than the cute libeal accounting tricks of 10,000 dollar hammers under Regan.
Jeremy Scahill reported in June 2010:
According to new statistics released by the
Pentagon, with Barack Obama as commander-
in-chief, there has been a 23% increase in
the number of “Private Security Contractors” working for the Department of Defense
in Iraq in the second quarter of 2009 and a
29% increase in Afghanistan, which “correlates
to the buildup of forces” in the country.
In Iraq, the Pentagon attributes the increase
to better accounting. But, these numbers relate
explicitly to DoD security contractors.
Companies like Blackwater and its successor
Triple Canopy work on State Department
contracts and it is unclear if these contractors
are included in the overall statistics. This
means, the number of individual “security”
contractors could be quite higher, as could
the scope of their expansion.
Overall, contractors
Meanwhile, the overall number of civilian
employees in the Defense Department has risen
under President Obama. The number of full-time
equivalent employees has increased from a peak
of about 665,000 under President Bush to an estimated 760,000 under President Obama for the
year 2011
http://www.independent.org/pdf/policy_reports...

The american government is nothing but a bunch of jew puppets,war mongers,theives,murderers and other various types of criminals and has been for the last 80 years.

http://www.topix.com/world/2011/12/afghanista...