Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Wars, Terror Fight Total $685.7 Billion
Eight years of war have almost been equivalent to the stimulus bill. Think how many schools, hospitals, roads, bridges, and high-speed railways could have been built with this money, and imagine the returns we would have gotten on those investments...
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hooray...I completely agree.
"The Government Accountability Office, or GAO, said the Iraq war accounted for $533.5 billion in Defense Department spending obligations through December, while spending on operations in Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa and the Philippines totaled $124.1 billion."
Crazy! Iraq costed more much more than half of what three different operations did put together. And were supposed to be concentrating our efforts on one of those places - I just don't get it...
I'm no neoconservative but I think it's important to see the other side here.
It's important to remember that these figures include non-military spending as well. Remember from our Pentagon tour that the Defense Department is one of the biggest distributors of aid money.
In addition, I'm sure the DoD has spent massive amounts training and supplying existing government forces in different places around the world.
Fighting terrorism is not always a military effort. Economic development is a formidable defense against radical Fundamentalism.
We have also not been attacked since this spending started. (I'm just saying be aware of this. To say that we would have been attacked again without the War on Terror is completely unfounded)
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