Officially the cost of the war on terror has been $1.3 trillion. [6] And military spending — especially the interest on debt to pay for past wars — keeps growing year on year:
As General Eisenhower noted:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
The cost in life was been ever steeper; over a million Iraqis died.
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Bush won the war in Iraq Obama is losing his in Afghanistan.
ReplyDeletePresident Eisenhower also said beware of the military industrial complex. Truer words have never been spoken.
ReplyDelete7:06 you are CLUELESS. IGNORANT.
ReplyDelete7:06 is absolutely right.
ReplyDeleteyeah 706, because we were so in control and the violence was so low during the Bush years. moron
ReplyDeleteWe RAN out of Iraq. We are trying to run out of Afghanistan. Of course, some CAN'T run --- they don't have any legs. But the military-indutrial complex 7:52 spoke of has gotten rich beyond measure. USA! USA! USA!
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