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Originally Posted by Robbie
Why would he have to borrow money when we had already been spending about half of everything we have in this country on the "Defense" budget for the last 50 years?
Where did all THAT money go? 
Just take it from the end of the last war of any size...The Vietnam War.
Every year since the end of that "war"...the U.S. spent from $300 to $500 BILLION every year!!!
That's 40 years and TWENTY TRILLION DOLLARS!!!!! So we didn't already have an entire fleet of expensive ships, planes, submarines...a million tons of ammunition, guns, tanks, jeeps, hummers???
IF we didn't already have all that shit...then I'd say we have a bigger scandal: Where did FORTY YEARS of high military spending go??? |
well, military spending you know.....and yes, and wiki actually shows the true cost of iraq 2 costs more than stated in that reuter's article
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The costs of the 2003-2010 Iraq War are often contested, as academics and critics have unearthed many hidden costs not represented in official estimates. The most recent major report on these costs come from Brown University in the form of the Costs of War project,[1] which said the total for wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan is at least $3.2-4 trillion.
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also, this is INCREMENTAL costs. that is costs above and beyond annualized costs of running the military and such. just the extra to run operations.