Boondoggle: $335 Million Afghanistan Power Plant That Doesn’t Work

Posted by | August 14, 2015 06:00 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly War & Peace


Newsweek presents another sterling example of your tax dollars flushed down the drain thanks to the Cheney administration:

Updated | A power plant in Afghanistan funded by the U.S. to the tune of $335 million is being “severely underutilized” and risks becoming a “catastrophic failure,” according to a U.S. government watchdog. The Tarakhil Power Plant is running far below its full capacity, the office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said…

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David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.

8 responses to Boondoggle: $335 Million Afghanistan Power Plant That Doesn’t Work

  1. Budda August 14th, 2015 at 06:46

    Whose idea was this and was it one of those no-bid deals?

  2. rg9rts August 14th, 2015 at 07:44

    Another well thunk out plan

  3. anothertoothpick August 14th, 2015 at 08:22

    We went into a county that was already destroyed by a ten year war with USSR and then we destroyed it more.

    And then we decided to rebuild it using taxpayer money.

    A building contractors’ wet dream.

    If we agree not to go to war with Iran on the Nuke Deal a lot of people are not going to make a lot of money.

  4. Mann T. August 14th, 2015 at 10:36

    Experienced oil / energy / aid workers advise building smaller electricity generating units distributed across such a city in order to provide resilience against terror, failure of distribution systems and richer suburbs taking all the power. Stinks of the usual bribery and corruption.

  5. Gindy51 August 14th, 2015 at 12:40

    How much of the money we paid for this POS ended up in Cheney and Bush back accounts?

  6. Bunya August 14th, 2015 at 14:28

    Now HERE’S money well spent! The cash Rumsfeld saved by denying soldiers much needed body armor during the Iraq war and hiring Blackwater to kill Iraqi civilians, is now paying off! We’re shelling out $335 million on a power plant that doesn’t work.

  7. robert August 14th, 2015 at 15:48

    i never thought i would see Afghanistan complain about the cost of fuel

    hell has indeed frozen over

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