It's kind of hard to tell what was really going on, but considering the following: > The Iraqi government paid up to £37,000 for the devices despite the purcha

It's kind of hard to tell what was really going on, but considering the following: > The Iraqi government paid up to £37,000 for the devices despite the purchase price being put at around £11,500 and > The training included instructions to Iraqi users to "shuffle their feet to generate static electricity to make the things work The bigger story here is probably the utter corruption and incompetence of military related acquisitions. Military spending is already politically untouchable >>> utterly corrupt even in the best cases >>> wildly wasteful … and then on top of that you add that it was American tax payer, i.e., someone else's money >>> in a collapsed country, Iraq >>> where there was even less oversight by the occupation forces >>> in a country that was utterly corrupt before it fell apart … and someone is surprised about any of this? Literal pallets of billions of dollars of USD cash just disappeared in Iraq and things were built only on paper. This wasn't an April fools' joke, it was a a tiny little side job in the biggest heist in human history. Let me put it this way… the USA was roughly $5 Trillion in debt in 2001, 20 years later we are $30 trillion in debt, just ignoring all the other squandered spending, these wars have essentially been a heist of $25 trillion dollars from American public coffers alone, not even to count all the other debt and spending and costs in human lives. THAT's why the likes of Gates went from being a $10 billionaire, to a ~$150 billionaire and Bezos went from nothing to who north of $300 billion now???? Not even to mention all the other billionaires who were the ultimate recipients of all the money that was pillaged. This guy was clearly just a tiny little easy bug the impotent government could manage to squash in an impotent show to the peasants not to step out of line.