Libya war cost so far...

[golfguru]

$600 Million for first week.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2011/03/cost-of-libya-intervention-600-million-for-first-week-pentagon-says.html

Only in America we go to war with borrowed money from China to protect oil supply from Libya to China.
How many BILLIONS we are paying to China EVERY YEAR just for interest on Treasury Bonds? So foolhardy!

[ProSense]

1. This is a bogus argument

"Only in America we go to war with borrowed money from China to protect oil supply from Libya to China."

The $600 million is already allocated funds. The debt isn't going to be increased a penny more than it was before the mission began.

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[ProSense]

3. You ask

"we could'nt use that $600 million for a better cause at home?"

...and have the nerve to be condescending about it?

The U.S. budget is $3.7 trillion dollars. Plenty of room to find $600 billion without attacking an effort to save lives.

For example, more than 150 billion for Afganistan and Iraq in 2010 or $1 billion in tax breaks for Bank of America.

Take your pick.

[golfguru]

4. A Billion here a Billion there...

and soon you are talking about real money. Why bring up examples of Iraq
war and Afghan war and BOA tax breaks? I have always been strongly against
all three.

The point is we have Trillion and half dollar deficits so we should not be
starting ANY wars right now. Those Tomahawks fired have to be replaced by
the US Treasury. We could have saved them for a defensive war when needed.

[ProSense]

5. Hmmm?

"Why bring up examples of Iraq war and Afghan war and BOA tax breaks?"

Which is a better use of funds: $600 million to save lives or $1 billion to BoA?

[golfguru]

7. Both are bad

We can use that $600 spent in FIRST WEEK in Libya to pay off our debt to China.
That will save $30 million in interest payments every year for the next several decades.

[progressoid]

6. Already allocated, but it's still borrowed.

And we are going to replace the ordnance used with borrowed money.

We've been borrowing to fund the military for years. And at this rate, we will for years to come with no end in sight.

[hugo_from_TN]

8. The military isn't going to replace those missiles?

Idiotic argument.

[tekisui]

9. Well, that's not exactly true. The Pentagon will replace all the missiles

and bombs sent. We are undoubtedly using resources we wouldn't have otherwise, such as on fuel for operations and movements to the theater.