# Your tax $ at work: US SCRAPS $7 BILLION WORTH OF EQUIPMENT AS IT LEAVES AFGHANISTAN

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**Created:** [June 20, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/your-tax-at-work-us-scraps-7-billion-worth-of-equipment-as-it-leaves-afghanistan/267262 "2013-06-20T14:39:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 9:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/your-tax-at-work-us-scraps-7-billion-worth-of-equipment-as-it-leaves-afghanistan/267262/21 "2013-06-22T09:01:05Z")

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Why are you highlighting the number of deaths when I’m talking about casualties?

Afghanistan is greater “middle east”, you really going into semantics here?

Oh that’s also a cute picture of Afghanistan, how about this one to add to repertoire? Little city called Kabul.

![http://www.phonebookoftheworld.com/afghanistan/city/city-of-kabul3.jpg](http://www.phonebookoftheworld.com/afghanistan/city/city-of-kabul3.jpg)

We may not be fighting in Kabul but putting a picture of a desert and saying “this is Afghanistan” is like me putting a picture of a Alaskan glacier and saying “this is America”. Direct misrepresentation.

“Deal with it”… I thought you’re trying to have a discussion here? You’re doing it wrong.

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**Author:** ![Mafdark](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mafdark/32/6322_2.png) [@Mafdark](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mafdark)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 9:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/your-tax-at-work-us-scraps-7-billion-worth-of-equipment-as-it-leaves-afghanistan/267262/22 "2013-06-22T09:12:23Z")

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> [@Are you ok v. Toronto propane explosions](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/are-you-ok-v-toronto-propane-explosions/53035/9):
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> Why are you highlighting the number of deaths when I’m talking about casualties?
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> Afghanistan is greater “middle east”, you really going into semantics here?
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> Oh that’s also a cute picture of Afghanistan, how about this one to add to repertoire? Little city called Kabul.
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> ![http://www.phonebookoftheworld.com/afghanistan/city/city-of-kabul3.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/d/6/d6325d34e9d9df7f7fa78bfb263fe6177989ebb7.jpeg)
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> We may not be fighting in Kabul but putting a picture of a desert and saying “this is Afghanistan” is like me putting a picture of a Alaskan glacier and saying “this is America”. Direct misrepresentation.
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> “Deal with it”… I thought you’re trying to have a discussion here? You’re doing it wrong.

Keep avoiding the points I’m making. That’s fine. I can keep going.

You don’t like my picture? Its because you can’t see the point…

Iraq is a modern society. High rises, paved roads, computers.

example of the paved roads where MRAPS can be driven:

 ![http://www.vidiani.com/maps/maps_of_asia/maps_of_iraq/detailed_road_and_relief_map_of_iraq.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/f/f/ff3c7a9ccee34ae2c95d8bcecaa2819e0de3eaa2.jpeg)

and afghanistan has very very few of these things. To include paved roads that MRAPs can drive on:

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**Author:** ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 12:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/your-tax-at-work-us-scraps-7-billion-worth-of-equipment-as-it-leaves-afghanistan/267262/23 "2013-06-22T12:09:25Z")

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You can keep going all you want.

All youre defending is that our field equipment is one time use and supplying the military is a brilliant business model.

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**Author:** ![Cossey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Cossey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cossey)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 9:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/your-tax-at-work-us-scraps-7-billion-worth-of-equipment-as-it-leaves-afghanistan/267262/24 "2013-06-22T21:02:06Z")

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I don’t know about you guys, but I’d be interested in going to the Turkish city of Batman.

(see directly under the word ‘Turkey’ in above map)

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