Guantanamo Spending Nears $2B

[unhappycamper]

Guantanamo Spending Nears $2B
June 07, 2010
UPI

The U.S. military has spent at least $500 million in recent years on renovations to Guantanamo Bay, including $296,000 for a go-kart track, records show.

Add in spending for top-secret items and the total cost easily soars toward $2 billion, The Washington Post reported Monday in the first public accounting of spending at the base since the first suspected terror detainees arrived in January 2002.

The costs do not include the $150 million a year that it takes to run the 45-square-mile base, which the Obama administration wants to close.

Since January 2002, the Pentagon built the go-kart track, which sits unused, and spent $249,000 for a volleyball court that now is abandoned and $3.5 million for 27 playgrounds that often are vacant, the Post reported. A cafe renovation cost $683,000 and another $773, 000 was spent to renovate a building to house a KFC/Taco Bell restaurant.

Millions more were spent on first-rate sports facilities, including football and baseball fields.

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. The New High Speed Rail built in South Africa cost $3billion

And it just opened for the World Soccer Tournament


Boy do we have our priorities messed up