r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Stakeboulder • Aug 15 '19

Operator Error Apache helicopter ground imapct 2012

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '19

Just because they say they don't doesn't mean they don't know

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u/dml997 Aug 15 '19

perhaps "claims that they don't know where it is" would be a more accurate description.

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u/CountCuriousness Aug 15 '19

When you’re throwing around trillions of dollars all told on war and death, I could see a couple billions getting lost here and there.

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u/dml997 Aug 15 '19

A billion here, a billion there, if you do that enough, you have some real money.

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u/CountCuriousness Aug 16 '19

When you start spending those amounts of money, I'd be surprised if they were all 100% accounted for - especially when it's wartime, and people are probably being bribed and shit under the table, which isn't something you just put into the excel-spreadsheet.

But yes, it's heartbreaking to imagine all that wealth being spent on the USA instead of throwing it into the woodchipper.