War Cost Approaching $$ One Trillion $$

[L. Coyote]

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None of which the government ever had as cash on hand.
So, figure the interest too to get to the truth!
And then, add in all future interest.
And then, find a TRILLION to pay the debt .....

Then add in all the cost of supporting the injured
and the survivors of the deceased for many decades,

How many TRILLION at the end of the accounting?

For what? A million dead per idiot shoe bomber?

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Full Cost Is Several Trillion

Someone at Harvard did a study 2-3 years ago, and found that if *all* costs are included (lifetime medical care and disability pay for the injured, used-up inventory that needs to be replaced, etc), the cost was already $2 Trillion back then.

It's fucking nuts.

But We The Sheeple say: b-a-a-a-h.

[Lorien]

4. Never question the Holy US Military Industrial Complex

one wonders what the cost of running our over 700 bases in 134 countries is every year-and WHY we even still have them? If we want to "find" the money for Universal Health care, Social Security and a new clean green energy grid it's right there; it just requires a reshuffling of our priorities. We could try truly protecting the lives and welfare of the American people, or we could just maintain the status quo of killing and spending for the profit of a few.

[Optical.Catalyst]

5. Any of these companies look familiar?

1 Lockheed Martin
2 Boeing
3 BAE Systems
4 Northrop Grumman
5 Raytheon
6 General Dynamics
7 EADS
8 L-3 Communications
9 Finmeccanica
10 United Technologies
11 Thales
12 KBR
13 SAIC
14 General Electric
15 Honeywell
16 Rolls-Royce
17 ITT
18 DCNS
19 Computer Sciences Corp.
20 ATK

They were all best of buddies with the Bush Administration who funneled a couple of trillion dollars to them over the course of eight years.

[L. Coyote]

6. Yes, they are the political campaign contributors.

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/lookup.php

Search for an industry:
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Search for industries
Industries profiled on opensecrets.org matching 'defense' (sectors in bold):

    * Aerospace, Defense Contractors
    * Defense
    * Defense Aerospace
    * Defense Electronics
    * Defense/Foreign Policy Advocates
    * Electronics, Defense Contractors
    * Foreign & Defense Policy
    * Misc Defense 

Defense: Long-Term Contribution Trends
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=D

2008*	$23,521,902	Dems	$12,090,114	51%	
2006*	$17,454,973	Dems	$6,615,913	38%

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.php?ind=D&cycle=2008
Rank	Organization	Amount	        Dems	
1	Lockheed M 	$2,605,152	48%	
2	Boeing Co 	$2,142,997	57%	
3	Northrop Gru	$1,870,110	53%		
4	Raytheon Co 	$1,779,336	52%	
5	General Dynm	$1,774,452	57%		
6	BAE Systems 	$1,084,447	43%	
7	United Techn 	$1,050,896	56%	
8	SAIC Inc 	$977,875	56%	
9	DRS Technol	$566,045	46%	
10	L-3 Communic	$552,289	57%

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?ind=D&cycle=2008&recipdetail=P&mem=N&sortorder=U
1	Obama, Barack (D)     $1,054,487
2	McCain, John (R)	$694,148

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=D&cycle=All&recipdetail=M&sortorder=U
Top 20 Members
Candidate	        Amount
Murtha, John P (D-PA)	$2,550,149
Moran, Jim (D-VA)	$1,253,396
Shelby, Richard (R-AL)	$1,129,666
Skelton, Ike (D-MO)	$1,106,433
Young, C W Bill (R-FL)	$1,056,125
Stevens, Ted (R-AK)	$1,023,043

[suchadeal]

2. It may be costing US, but it's making a lot of people rich.

And that's the whole idea. Therefore, it's a huge hit.

[L. Coyote]

3. Indeed. Cheney exercised his stock options, ..... Welcome to DU!