Conflicts' costs may exceed $700 billion

[brettdale]

http://www.detnews.com/2005/nation/0507/25/A05-257768.htm

Conflicts' costs may exceed $700 billion

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have already cost taxpayers $314 billion, and the Congressional Budget Office projects additional expenses of perhaps $450 billion over the next 10 years

[BlueEyedSon]

1. BS.... it will go over a trillion, most of which will go to HAL and KBR

on no bid/sweetheart deals and bilked from you & me

[The Magistrate]

2. An Excellent Reason For Us To Cut It Short, Sir

"War requires funds, you know."

"There is no instance of a state benfiting by prolonged warfare."

[IChing]

6. You're wrong, I think the Greeks in the Polyponnisian Wars proved

:sarcasm:

They keep this up for maybe 20 years at the most and then you fall to ruin.

The US was able to sustain its growth for land by having a long war against my
friends, but this kind of shit doesn't work anymore. Resources is the battle being fought by the greedy. Without an overwhelming population of supporters such as immigrants the native population will overcome finally.

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?

An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind" ghandi

[sintax]

3. The Pentagon

runs this country.

6,000 military bases in US.

The US military is doing nothing less than destroying the planet.

www.warresisters.org

Recommended

[Wickerman]

4. Conflicts? I think they are wars

We got a war on Terra, right? Did or did not Bush declare war?

[wli]

7. the US has not declared war since WWII

Unannounced military incursions have been the modus operandi ever since.

[Wickerman]

8. thanks, I couldn't recall what Bush** had done here

I assume its all legal maneuvering. :eyes:

[Ishoutandscream2]

5. Wow, the things we could do with that money

Health care, paying down the debt, giving REAL TAX RELIEF to those in the middle and lower classes. My God, this administration's policies are truly out of whack.

[brettdale]

9. 700 Billion buys a lot of

Teachers
Nurses
Doctors

It will also feed and house a lot of hungry and poor people.

[Ishoutandscream2]

10. Damn your socialist thinking!!!

How dare you think of taking care of those in need?? (yes, sarcasm).

[applegrove]

11. The more they bankrupt - the easier it will be for corporations to

pick up the pieces of the crash. It is all about starving the best well into the Democrats next President & beyond.

[southernleftylady]

12. Didnt osama say that this is what he was going to do to america?

make us go bankrupt? or something like this?