How do you explain this?

[kentuck]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0317-01.htm
U.S. War Spending to Rise 44% to $9.8 Bn a Month, Report Says

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U.S. military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan will average 44 percent more in the current fiscal year than in fiscal 2005, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service said.

Spending will rise to $9.8 billion a month from the $6.8 billion a month the Pentagon said it spent last year, the research service said. The group's March 10 report cites "substantial'' expenses to replace or repair damaged weapons, aircraft, vehicles, radios and spare parts.

It also figures in costs for health care, fuel, national intelligence and the training of Iraqi and Afghan security forces -- "now a substantial expense,'' it said.

The research service said it considers "all war and occupation costs,'' while the Pentagon counts just the cost of personnel, maintenance and operations.

[Drum]

1. Don't forget,

the US gov't is already on record as stating that "we" are leaving substantial equipment behind, certainly in Iraq. We, The People, are most certainly providing a few changes of uniforms and certainly a whole lotta vehicles and weapons...in effect we're arming the folks that We've vanquished.

And thus, in typical BushCo wisdom, We will be paying at least twice for Our own military, on top of every other pile of money they've embezzled from Us.

[Marie26]

5. And if Iraq becomes

a fundamentalist state, or if the police turn on us, they could end up fighting us w/our own expensive weapons & training.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Over 100 billion a year just for...

those two places, and then there's the other increased military spending around the world.

Wunnerful, and just what was that deficit supposed to be this year?

Simple arithemetic, anyone?

[Psephos]

3. Heh heh, it doesn't affect the deficit at all...

...because it's designated as "Emergency Spending" the war costs don't appear on the official budget.

Don't you wish you could do the same with your budget?

Peace.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Yeah, and I guess we could talk for a week about...

on- and off- budget expenses, the budget deficit vs. the spending deficit, and all the other Federal accounting tricks that nobody else can use. Gummint cash flow accounting is not taught in B-school.

Fact is, though, that the President-like object is pissing an extra 100 billion or so a year on death and destruction. If we gotta go broke, that ain't he way I want to go.

[Psephos]

8. Amen, bro n/t

[rman]

6. Must be the insurgents' last throes

[salin]

7. So who is it that is breaking the Military?