July 11, 2003
Liberation

According to this Time.com article, "Coalition" (read: American) troops plundered Baghdad International Airport after the conflict in Iraq was over, looting and vandalizing.

U.S. estimates of the cost of the damage and theft begin at a few million dollars and go as high as $100 million. Airport workers say even now air conditioners and other equipment are regularly stolen. "Soldiers do this stuff all the time, everywhere. It's warfare," says a U.S. military official. "But the conflict was over when this was done. These are just bored soldiers."

Wonderful. It's good to hear about my tax dollars hard at work. What's $100 million when Donald Rumsfeld just doubled the cost estimate in Iraq to $3.9 billion per month of occupation? I wonder if he's taking incidents like the Baghdad airport into account...

Posted by Barry at July 11, 2003 12:39 PM | Trackback
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