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March 01, 2005
Your Tax Dollars at Work
As we know, all "defense" spending is good because it protects us from evil invaders and terrorists, and anyone who opposes even a penny of it is an anti-American, defeatist liberal.
For example, who could oppose this?
A Defense Department report says the Air Force wasted $1 million on unreliable hand-held chemical agent detectors that could have put at risk any airmen who depended on the equipment, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Air Force officials may have violated federal laws and military rules when they bought 100 commercial versions of the detectors and supplied them to commanders in the Middle East while knowing that the manufacturer's tests showed the devices did not work well in hot areas or under battle conditions, the Deseret Morning News reported.
(Thanks to Antiwar.com for the link.)
Posted by Mike Tennant at March 1, 2005 09:45 AM
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