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Pentagon gives $411 million to Alaskan Indians to provide Iraqi impersonators


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Just shoot me. Giving away nearly 1/2 billion dollars for this makes my head explode. I guess they need to blow out all these billions before the party ends. Think about how many acors you could get for 411 million. By the time this is all implemented, maybe they can give like Punch and Judy shows in the desert. Or turn it into some bizarre form of reality show. Can we all just scream together?
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31 responses // Pentagon gives $411 million to Alaskan Indians to provide Iraqi impersonators

  • Is this for real? Find the source of the funding proposal and send the person to trial. This is an outrage, wasting our money.

    How about lowering gas prices a penny instead?

    Hungry children? National vaccinations, school funding, scholarships, water treatment, tornado cleanup?

    This is not the kind of press the US needs in these times. First fire, then prosecute those responsible.
    Shannon5
  • All that money for a mock Iraq and yet we still have hurricane Katrina victims living in their temporary homes.
    This country can be so ridiculous at times.
    fauxsherrrr
  • That crap would almost be funny if it weren't so outragious. Somebody needs to go.
    slopphopper
  • P-P-P-P-P-Preposterous!
    jogglef
  • Seriously. 414 mil? Must have included $25,000 hammers to build the old 2x4 movie set of an iraqi town.

    Perhaps George Lucas could have rented them skywalker ranch, heck, couldn't they have bought Jackson's Neverland Ranch for that?

    I'd pay money to see the 249th blow that place up.
    Shannon5
  • watch this comment being used here, here, here and here
    The Alaskan Indians are probably laughing all the way to the bank and saying, "Payback's a bitch." Good Grief. I guess the War Mongers are just letting the military loot what's left of the American tax dollars before they're all kicked out of office.
    patsarts
  • This is so bad on so many levels that I end up sputtering.
    FlatRocker
  • Incredible to say the least. What a mess we are in. I hope someone cuts this Pentagon War Machine down to zip. Eisenhower predicted the Pentagon would be a huge problem if we were taken over by a president who had no brains. It happened, incredible. DUMB YA does it again.
    Robroy1
  • lame
    metajabaz
  • Who ARE the people responsible for this? I'm so tired of hearing "the Government" did (fill in the blank crap discovered this week). "The Government" didn't do anything - people did. There are actual people who made decisions and profitted...WHO ARE THEY? The money spent is OUR money - when did anyone approve this? Where are the regulators? The prosecutors? The FBI? And we wonder why our schools and infrastructure are so pitiful.
    samfromalabam
  • Thank Mr.Bush! Our Defense dollars at work! Lame...
    Kallico75
  • This reminds me of the movie Team America, except now instead of puppets we have indigenous peoples saying "Derka derka ... Haka sherpa sherpa."
    edmubnd
  • 1-2-3! AAhhhhhh!!!

    What the. where were you guys!
    CarlosIsDown
  • So...Instead of investing in native Alaskan culture, we're paying them to play the parts of others? Show's how ignorant we are.
    MissJonaLyn
  • Canada's looking better every day.
    stephenthomson
  • watch this comment being used here
    Wait, isn't there another story on the top news list here on Current about putting Disneyland in Iraq? Are we really bringing fake Iraq to the US and fake US to Iraq? Like, for serious?
    ultravphunter
  • http://current.com/items/76374142_twentynine_palms
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    Ok, so I understand the frustration over misspent dollars by this administration.

    On the other hand, it seems to me that the very very least we can do when sending so many of this country's young men and women into (a stupid) war is to allow them to be well trained.

    Check out this pod that Lauren Cerre from the Vanguard team did of training at 29 Palms. It's not just battle skills that are sharpened there - they're actually trying to learn how to interact and get along with the local people, which to me seems like a good thing.

    After seeing the pod, do you still agree it's the very worst way we could be spending our money? I personally still oppose the war...but I support having well trained troops who know how to interact with the local population.
    Tori
  • This is yet another excuse for people to get mad at Bush and Republicans because they don't think gays should get married and unborn children should be murderd. I thought when the democrats took control of Congress all our problems would be over........
    WarFarris
  • Our money seems to be in good hands.
    brycepatingre
  • me too, WarFarris, me too.
    nkeg87
  • God help this country if we let whomever came up with this idea let them have their way!!! why not direct this money to the ones who really need it, like the Saudi royal family, the ruling junta in Pakistan, the Bush libraryor just urniate it away.... these guys in Washington are mad and its time we the people do something about it!! I am sick and tired of our own people here in our own country suffering the likes that they are because of some idiot in Washington that wants to make a name for himself. When are we going to tell these idiots enough is enough!
    TCMOONER
  • I don't know which is worse, the fact that this stuff is still going on in Iraq or that we have to go to such elaborate (and expensive) lengths to keep our troops safe. Maybe if we have to build a replica 'world' to train our Marines, we should think harder about going there in the first place.

    At least we stand a better chance of this not turning into another Vietnam where it goes on and on and continues escalating with no end in sight... oh wait.
    editwizard
  • I don't know what this has to do with Democrats in Congress. Congress doesn't award Pentagon contracts. And with all due respects to military training, saying our boys need training doesn't justify a no-bid award to an Alaskan Indian tribe of over $400 million of our money to do this job. We can't keep justifying gluttony in the name of our military.
    nukewhalesnow
  • sinking more money into a war we should not be in is just another reason to get into action and contact the people who are supposed to represent us!!
    johnlocke
  • Just to be clear, because the headline is not, this is not about Alaskan Indians playing the parts of Iraqis. That is not what's going on.
    Blazesboy
  • Um... hello??? Wait till part two of the story unfolds and you see Alaskan senators pushing along with their ANC counterparts to allow the U,S. to drill for more oil in protected places in Alaska

    Read between the lines people... of course there would be no reason to pay $400 mil for actors...

    When Alaska is turned into a sludge pit for oil companies this story will make alot more sense...
    korourke
  • So I wonder what the most often overheard complaint by the eskimos is (in Arabic of course) - the heat or the exchange rate of Dinar to Dollar?
    fraudfinder
  • someone said this at the top and i agree 1000%
    GIVE THE MONEY back to the people.


    we have a hard enough time filling up our cars, making sure our kids are in good schools, and keeping a steady job!
    Horntho
  • Listen, it's not easy running a black market. Training is always required. Should have given the contract to the Afghanistan dudes.
    slopphopper
  • Why should'nt we drill for oil in Alaska but its okay to do it in Saudi Arabia? Because its just ugly desert? That one of the most hipocritical things Ive ever heard. You bitch about the gas prices, but democrats won't let us drill on our own land that nobody is even, or ever will, doing anything with. What is up with that??????
    The only people that I want to hear bitch about cars and how bad they are on the inviornment are Amish people. And I doubt they will read this.
    WarFarris
  • WarFarris-
    Hmmm... why would it be hypocritical to drill for oil in a land that already has little or no wildlife or natural remaining habitat, such as Saudi Arabia? its not like that land is being used for anything useful.

    I dont bitch about gas prices, they should be much higher and would be if it wasnt for subisidies to keep them where they are. Fossil fuels are obviously not the long term solution to our energy needs and the sooner the U.S. accepts this reality and pushes all of their money into developing alternative energy sources the better off our economy, environment and future will be.

    Futher drilling in Alaska will just continue our path of "biting off our nose to spite our faces", not only would we be destroying one of the few untouched places in the world,it would be a stop gap solution to an overwhelming energy problem that our generation faces. All we would be left with is destroyed natural habitats, and eventually hundreds of miles of pipeline to nowhere once we milk it for all its got.And for what? a couple decades more to delay the inevitable search for alternative energy???? No thanks
    korourke

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