I would love to see a breakdown on war costs. I’ll bet we have to psy most of it anyway, no matter where soldiers are deployed. Then, just for fun, stack it up against fraud in social programs. Clean them up and the war woud be free. LOL
$10 Billion a day (stated above) is pure BS....
Right. Like that’s going to happen. I can hear the left now, the (it goes without saying) evil radical rightwing extremests what to steal grandma’s dogfood and starve children in order to give more money to the (cue the ominious music) militay industrial complex.
JFTR. The roughly $500 billion we the taxpayers spend on keeping the American military forces trained, paid and supplied doesn't reflect the current costs for fighting the terrorists. The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are off budget.
The Bush administration could have saved a lot of American lives and taxpayer money if it would have fought the battle for Iraq, the same way it handled the invasion and take down of Saddam`s brutal regime. Its called total war!
The US military is not an international police force and it doesn't exist to be at the forefront of any nation building effort. Also, the US military doesn't exist to spread democracy to the Islamic world. The US military exists to fight battles, kill the enemy --- in this case, to kill Muslims --- and WIN wars.