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“Notwithstanding”: How Congress Enabled Chuck Hagel and Ash Carter to Keep Child Rape and Torture from Disrupting Forever War – emptywheel

Posted by M. C. on January 27, 2018

Can’t let minor annoyances get in the way of the racket that is war.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/01/23/notwithstanding-how-congress-enabled-chuck-hagel-and-ash-carter-to-keep-child-rape-and-torture-from-disrupting-forever-war/

…Chuck Hagel and Ash Carter were fully aware of gross human rights abuses, including both child rape and torture, but elected to use the blunt tool that Congress had given them to ignore these human rights abuses and continue funding the same units within the Afghan military that carried out the abuses. So while official policy was that abuses are to be reported, they then are completely ignored at the Congressional and Cabinet level in order to continue a forever war that is forever failing.

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Hagel’s Military Budget, More Change Than Cut

Posted by M. C. on March 9, 2014

War secretary Chuck Hagel says he wants to cut 40 thousand troops. That has everyone crying the red, white and blues.

According to Ron Paul there will be no overall budget cut. The money just gets shifted elsewhere. Continuing the F-35 disaster for example. The military industrial complex isn’t going cold turkey.

So where is the money going?

Everything about war is changing, from soldier to victim. Read the rest of this entry »

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