Gov’t Study Estimate War Cost to Reach $700B
A new government study has found that the total cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will top $700 billion over the next decade. Already $300 billion has been spent. The total cost estimate comes from the Congressional Budget Office. The San Francisco Chronicle reports this would make the combined campaigns the most expensive military effort in the last 60 years. It is estimated that the Vietnam War cost about 600 billion in current dollars. The Korean War cost about 430 billion in current dollars. – Democracy Now!
A new government study has found that the total cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will top $700 billion over the next decade. Already $300 billion has been spent. The total cost estimate comes from the Congressional Budget Office. The San Francisco Chronicle reports this would make the combined campaigns the most expensive military effort in the last 60 years. It is estimated that the Vietnam War cost about 600 billion in current dollars. The Korean War cost about 430 billion in current dollars. – Democracy Now!
This is an OPEN THREAD. Just thought you’d be as shocked as I by these numbers.
From MargD at ProgressiveTalk Yahoo mailing list — she needs this ASAP — her e-mail is margd @ ev1.net
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A portfolio of information I personally dropped off last December in The Hague at Dutch parliament and Cabinet members. A decision had to be taken on lenght of involvement of Dutch forces in Iraq.
Fallujah: Napalm By Any Other Name
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/21/32937/834 [1]
by Avila Sun Nov 21st, 2004 at 00:29:37 PDT
Veteran journalist Simon Jenkins made just this point in a striking piece recently in the British Sunday Times (A wrecked nation, a desert, a ghost town. And this will be called victory). “In Vietnam,” he wrote, “the Americans destroyed the village to save it. In Iraq we destroy the city to save it.”
‘The Salvador Option’
The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq Newsweek: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6802629/site/newsweek/ [2]
and reactions http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/8/21595/02169 [3]
Excuse the Dutch paragraph –
“Nederland heeft wel enige ervaring met door de VS geleide oorlog in El Salvador – the dood van zes IKON medewerkers, bischop Romero, zelfs nonnen en zes Jesuiten werden niet gespaard in de vuile oorlog van de VS in Centraal Amerika.
Lees eens verder hoe Amerikanen bezorgd zijn over het beleid in het Witte Huis: “
Diary by Soj: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/8/104922/3037 [4]
Ambassador Negroponte en nomination AG Alberto Gonzales
Research :: who is the US ambassador in Baghdad, John Negroponte?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte
Who is Alberto Gonzales?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Gonzales
His torture memo’s ACLU:
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17255&c=206 [5]
Attachments [1 thru 5]
Cluster Bombs in Afghanistan & Iraq
PS. The Dutch have pulled their forces out of Iraq per March 2005, and are now involved in the ISAF-NATO forces operation for security in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Thank you so much. Marg is just a fine person.
Also: That’s a pretty darn good mailing list. I disagree often, but always learn something. They’re a bit more left than I. You should see their comments today on the Hillary story.
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I don’t engage in fighting my own – a foolish waste of energy.
I rather choose the Dem candidates I like and support them in any way I can.
I truly think there are agents provocateurs around to pour fuel on any small fire @ a leftist blog.
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What was that diary the other day that had all the graphic pics of our wounded soldiers. I think it was over the weekend. These pictures would be perfect.
As to the cost of the war…staggering. Did not the administration say the Iraqis would be able to rapidly pay back this money because of their wealth of oil? Nice of this administration to destroy a country for no GD reason and then expect them to pay to rebuild it. And I would really like to know where the hell all that money is going. It sure isn’t to the troops medical after care or the right equipment to keep them safe like armored vehicles that include plates on the bottom. Just look at all the legless wounded on those pictures. So WHO is getting all that money(besides the obvious Halliburton/Cheney Gang?
I have to split in a minute … if you can find that and e-mail it to Marg, that’d be great. She is the most hard-working person on recruiting and on depleted uranium (DU) issues.
I will see what I can do.
Marg just wrote back. She says:
Thank you Susan. I’ve found this site:
memory hole that ought to do it.
That is where I saw it. Someone must have had a link to that in their diary. Hope she blows the pics up really big/ poster size at least so people get the full impact.
Remember those photos that Kos found at the New England Journal of Medicine?
Just horrific…. wonder where that is … still waiting for my daughter to show up.
It may have been one of Maryscott’s diaries. I am having a hard time logging on to MLW. I will continue to try and find it because some of them are really graphic. I hate them but people need to see these, not the sugar and cream ones of the soldiers skiing with their new artificial legs. I have a question I have never heard brought up. How many wounded male soldiers lost their sexual functions from being blown up underneath their unarmored Humvees. I don’t mean to be gross but it seems to me that alot of young men may never have the joy of being a Daddy.
Alohal., this would make a great, great diary. The loss of sexual function by so many young men … and maybe some young women too.
And not just from paralysis.
Hmm, I wonder if the Halliburton overcharges are included.
Paul Hackett got a great endorsement from the Cincinnati Enquirer. I am so excited about this. He is the first Iraq war vet to run for Congress I believe.
YESSSSSSSS!
If any of you are somewhat informed on Lebanon, here’s a great essay that someone should diary.
Pretty cool. This is the second time I know of that buzzflash has linked to a diary here. One was Boomans, today’s is susan’s-MSN Information on Bolton/Grand Jury.
This is linked on Buzzflash? Oh wow!
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/07/26/bush-pulls-security/
I realize they can spin this as “a time of crisis immediately after 9/11” but (putting on republican face) we’re at war daggumbit. And we can’t have our assistant coach calling out our plays to the other team. All I wanna know is, what side is Rove on? (taking off republican face)
is having difficulties. Nothing I can do, but they’re working on it.