01 October 2013 (02:08 UTC-07 Tango)/26 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/09 Mehr 1391/27 Ren-Xu (8th month) 4711

Japan’s Board of Audit has discovered that U.S. military contractors have ripped off Japan’s Self Defense Forces (and thereby Japan’s taxpayers) to the tune of at least $520 million USD!

The investigation went all the way back to 1989 and involved the purchase of  aircraft, ships, missile equipment and required support from U.S. war mongering corporations.  At least 250 contracts are questionable because they have not been fulfilled even though the U.S. military contractors were paid in full in advance!

One official pointed out that some contracts were paid for ten years ago, with no oversight as to their completion.

By the way, U.S. contractors being paid in advance, and without oversight, is at the heart of the U.S. instigated corruption in Afghanistan, according to the U.S. Special Investigator General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)!

The same thing happened in Iraq, according to the U.S. Special Investigator General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR).  In the case of Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s the U.S. taxpayer who’s being ripped off.