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Reuters has this to report about Afghanistan contracts: The United States has spent over $23 billion on reconstruction and development contracts in Afghanistan since 2002, and auditors say about $1 billion of this is waste, a U.S. senator said on Thursday.... McCaskill said the waste identified by auditors amounted to nearly one in six dollars spent on Afghan contracts so far. Right off the bat, I can see the numbers are wrong here. If a billion dollars is waste, and that waste amounts to "nearly one in six dollars," then the amount spent is nearly six billion dollars. Where does the $23 billion ...