HuffingtonPost.com by Dan Froomkin (excerpts):  Washington - With just over three months until the last US troops are currently due to leave Iraq, the Department of Defense is engaged in a mad dash to give away things that cost US taxpayers billions of dollars to buy and build.  The giveaways include enormous, elaborate military bases and vast amounts of military equipment that will be turned over to the Iraqis, mostly just to save the expense of bringing it home.  "Its all sunk costs," said ...
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