Comments on: How much money have we spent to fight the so-called “war” in Iraq? http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/04/how-much-money-have-we-spent-to-fight-the-so-called-war-in-iraq/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:41:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: MIKE http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/04/how-much-money-have-we-spent-to-fight-the-so-called-war-in-iraq/#comment-25916 MIKE Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:09:11 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/04/how-much-money-have-we-spent-to-fight-the-so-called-war-in-iraq/#comment-25916 MAN..this country is run by a a bunch of morons. As long as they can put money in their own pockets they are good for anything. Please someone tell me in WHAT WAY CAN A MIDDLE CLASS family have a voice in anything (free speech, my ass free speech, you can talk but you won't be heard). Our current president is a prick, and sent all the money need to fix this mess in Iraq, as mention above, we'll be driving cars, getting other things that are made in Iraq in the US, but what are we getting out of it, OH WAIT.. NUTTING.. we'll have to pay Iraq. Why can't US use their own stuff, make their own, plan their own, buy their own, and tax heavily on IMPORTS. IMPORTS are making a TON of money and taking it out of the US, the government is getting a large sum of that under the table and letting it happen. But sooner or later when they money can't buy what's not available, then we'll see what happens. MAN..this country is run by a a bunch of morons. As long as they can put money in their own pockets they are good for anything. Please someone tell me in WHAT WAY CAN A MIDDLE CLASS family have a voice in anything (free speech, my ass free speech, you can talk but you won’t be heard).

Our current president is a prick, and sent all the money need to fix this mess in Iraq, as mention above, we’ll be driving cars, getting other things that are made in Iraq in the US, but what are we getting out of it, OH WAIT.. NUTTING.. we’ll have to pay Iraq.

Why can’t US use their own stuff, make their own, plan their own, buy their own, and tax heavily on IMPORTS. IMPORTS are making a TON of money and taking it out of the US, the government is getting a large sum of that under the table and letting it happen.

But sooner or later when they money can’t buy what’s not available, then we’ll see what happens.

]]> By: Dan Klarmann http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/04/how-much-money-have-we-spent-to-fight-the-so-called-war-in-iraq/#comment-16643 Dan Klarmann Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:54:21 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/04/how-much-money-have-we-spent-to-fight-the-so-called-war-in-iraq/#comment-16643 So, what shall we do for the 5th anniversary of "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished" target="_blank" title="wiki: Mission Accomplished" rel="nofollow">Mission Accomplished</a>" in Iraq? On May 1st, 2003, Dubya flew to an aircraft carrier that was almost as far as possible from Iraq to declare that the war was over. That's when the expenses really got going. So, what shall we do for the 5th anniversary of “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq?

On May 1st, 2003, Dubya flew to an aircraft carrier that was almost as far as possible from Iraq to declare that the war was over. That’s when the expenses really got going.

]]> By: grumpypilgrim http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/04/how-much-money-have-we-spent-to-fight-the-so-called-war-in-iraq/#comment-16636 grumpypilgrim Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:51:09 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/04/how-much-money-have-we-spent-to-fight-the-so-called-war-in-iraq/#comment-16636 Perhaps the saddest thing about the boxcar-loads of money spent for the unnecessary invasion of Iraq is that it it tends to distract us from the far greater cost: the needless death of 4,000 American troops and untold hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis (both civilian and military). Perhaps the saddest thing about the boxcar-loads of money spent for the unnecessary invasion of Iraq is that it it tends to distract us from the far greater cost: the needless death of 4,000 American troops and untold hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis (both civilian and military).

]]> By: Niklaus Pfirsig http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/04/how-much-money-have-we-spent-to-fight-the-so-called-war-in-iraq/#comment-16601 Niklaus Pfirsig Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:30:24 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/04/how-much-money-have-we-spent-to-fight-the-so-called-war-in-iraq/#comment-16601 Where to begin? The pricetag for 911 can be readily calculated. It might take a while to collect up all the 911 claims paid out by the insurance companies and the assessed value of the property damaged in the attacks. Just a guess, but I'll bet it's a heckuva lot less then $3,000,000,000. After all, this is America, where everything including the government, has a pricetag. As for the owners of the WTC.... it was a bonus. It is my understanding that the WTC was losing money as a rental property. BUt what does the 911 attacks, a set of totally forseen set of terrorist attacks, planned by a member of Saudi Arabian royalty who happened to be a former business associate of Dubya's have to do with the war in Iraq? Absolutely nothing. In a few years, when we are watching the evening entertainment on our overpriced Iraqi branded TV's and driving trendy Iraqi made cars some one may have a dim memory of a "war" in Iraq, but won't recall why. As for the 2003 rosy prediction of the war, it shou be remembered that the last words spoken by General George Custer to anyone outside of his party before riding off the the little bighorn river was: " This shouldn't take but a half a day!" Where to begin?

The pricetag for 911 can be readily calculated. It might take a while to collect up all the 911 claims paid out by the insurance companies and the assessed value of the property damaged in the attacks. Just a guess, but I’ll bet it’s a heckuva lot less then $3,000,000,000. After all, this is America, where everything including the government, has a pricetag. As for the owners of the WTC…. it was a bonus. It is my understanding that the WTC was losing money as a rental property. BUt what does the 911 attacks, a set of totally forseen set of terrorist attacks, planned by a member of Saudi Arabian royalty who happened to be a former business associate of Dubya’s have to do with the war in Iraq? Absolutely nothing.

In a few years, when we are watching the evening entertainment on our overpriced Iraqi branded TV’s and driving trendy Iraqi made cars some one may have a dim memory of a “war” in Iraq, but won’t recall why.

As for the 2003 rosy prediction of the war, it shou be remembered that the last words spoken by General George Custer to anyone outside of his party before riding off the the little bighorn river was: ” This shouldn’t take but a half a day!”

]]> By: grumpypilgrim http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/04/how-much-money-have-we-spent-to-fight-the-so-called-war-in-iraq/#comment-16590 grumpypilgrim Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:12:27 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/04/how-much-money-have-we-spent-to-fight-the-so-called-war-in-iraq/#comment-16590 The cost really is both insane and underestimated. I saw an article recently that said Bush's cost estimates exclude the replacement cost of military equipment that is wearing out much faster because of the occupation. Equipment like F-16 fighter jets. Obviously, the desert is a very hostile environment for such high-tech military machinery, which, combined with the large number of missions, means costly equipment will need to be replaced much sooner than otherwise would have been necessary. Yet another legacy of the Bush/Cheney transfer of public wealth to the military-industrial complex for purposes of protecting the oil industry. Come to think of it, with Bush from the oil industry and Cheney from the defense industry, what better way would there be for them to pump vast amounts of public money into both industries than by creating a gigantic foreign occupation that has no endpoint? The cost really is both insane and underestimated. I saw an article recently that said Bush’s cost estimates exclude the replacement cost of military equipment that is wearing out much faster because of the occupation. Equipment like F-16 fighter jets. Obviously, the desert is a very hostile environment for such high-tech military machinery, which, combined with the large number of missions, means costly equipment will need to be replaced much sooner than otherwise would have been necessary. Yet another legacy of the Bush/Cheney transfer of public wealth to the military-industrial complex for purposes of protecting the oil industry. Come to think of it, with Bush from the oil industry and Cheney from the defense industry, what better way would there be for them to pump vast amounts of public money into both industries than by creating a gigantic foreign occupation that has no endpoint?

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