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Military Spending Boggles the MindPosted on Jan 19, 2007The Pentagon estimates that the cost of the Iraq war will reach $8.4 billion a month this year, or $9.7 billion if you include Afghanistan. That’s up from $8 billion a month last year, and $4.4 billion back in 2003. Either America was getting twice as much war for half the price four years ago, or someone is inflating his budget. Gordon R. England says the Pentagon has to spend more to replace and repair expensive vehicles, and that may be. But in a secret memo the deputy secretary of defense also encouraged the Pentagon to boost its estimates for war costs.
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By yours truly, January 20, 2007 at 10:52 am #
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This entire show is nothing but same old same old business as usual status quo, what with Empire running amok in some distant land; meanwhile we’re being squeezed and bled dry here at home.
Report thisBy Rodney Matthews, January 20, 2007 at 10:21 am #
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Just look at the war profiteers and you car see where the money went. This is nothing but legal looting of the U.S treasury bu the Bush adminstration and his friends. The Democratic party should immediately begin auditing every company that made money off the war and start putting the people in jail who has stolen, looted,and misused American treasury. That includes Bush Cheney and Halliburton.
Report thisBy DennisD, January 20, 2007 at 7:39 am #
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When you factor in corruption, inflation and gratuity we’re getting off cheaply. The military industrial complex should be sending a thank you card to every taxpayer, their children and their children’s children in perpetuity.
Report thisWar - who is good for....absolutely business.
By xdoi, January 20, 2007 at 7:11 am #
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Treasonous.
Report thisBy Skruff, January 20, 2007 at 6:23 am #
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What amazes me is this clown and his retinue lable themselves “conservatives” and no one objects. Of course for old fart conservatives like me, this is as ridiculous as Clinton calling himself a “liberal”
No conservative leaves the country in deeper debt than when they arrived..
What we need is a true conservative who cuts the country’s spending by half. Chop chop chop with no sacred cows. Cut social programs, defense, aid to our so called “friends” and salaries at the Federal level.
Salaries for Senators should be twice the average wage for their individual state, and salaries for represenatives should be 10% above the avrage national wage.
With that formula, not one congress man or woman would be making half what they make today.
How can we be represented by folks who are insulated from the problems working Americans face every day?
Report thisBy RLG, January 20, 2007 at 3:03 am #
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All we have to do is get out of Iraq, bring our people home where they belong and then cut the pentagon budget in half. They waste more money and lives than anyone. Let’s use the savings for something much more important, the people whose money they are wasting.
Report thisBy rabblerowzer, January 20, 2007 at 2:23 am #
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Bush aptly named himself the “War President,” and ironically that is the only true statement he has ever made.
Report thisBy toc, January 19, 2007 at 8:31 pm #
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1% of the world’s GNP is spent by the
Report thisDepartment of Defence. One sent of every dollar of goods and services produced by all the people in the world is spent by the DOD. Staggering.
By Moe Hare, January 19, 2007 at 7:12 pm #
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“The Pentagon estimates that the cost of the Iraq war will reach $8.4 billion a month this year, or $9.7 billion if you include Afghanistan.”
It’s just unbelievable how some are becoming so rich, while others die fighting this “war on terror.” Billions wasted, that could have been used to benefit humanity rather than to destroy it--what a disgrace!
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