We have just passed One Trillion Dollars in direct costs for the two

[madinmaryland]

Wars that we have started. This does not even include what the long terms costs for the care of the wounded. Why are the teabaggers not whining about that? Would it be because their white president started it?

Which is worse, a trillion to provide health care to all (or close to that) or wars that have killed and maimed hundreds of thousands? Wonder which selection the teabaggers will take.

:mad:

[LiberalLoner]

1. No - they always support defense. They love it when we kill people. n/t

[napi21]

2. At least the war costs are ON BUDGET now! All that off

budget & soecial votes to get $$ for the wars during the shrub admin. were all BS & did nothing but try to hide the trrue cost of war!

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. Both allow a corrupt industry to stay in business, and the US taxpayer is required to fund both

So, yeah, they both pretty much suck, and neither one was necessary.

[graywarrior]

4. Women's reproductive organs are not included

Nor are socialized, commie health care advocates.

[noiretextatique]

5. the teabaggers will always chose killing brown peole

it's as american as apple pie.

[femrap]

6. k and r

F*cking wars. F*cking idiots in the Administration who won't stop the f*cking wars.

We are witnessing the decline of this empire. I wonder if the Chinese are going to be really mean to us???

[kenny blankenship]

7. So, we've spent about one quarter of what we spent for all of WWII to defeat Germany + Japan

and the rest of the Axis forces, including all the fighting in Africa, Europe and the Pacific together with the cost of development and production of generations of fighter aircraft, strategic bombers, even early jet aircraft, countless thousands of tanks and howitzers, and the commissioning of dozens of aircraft carriers and destroyers and battleships and submarines. Not to mention the development from scratch of the first atomic weapons. And when it was over, for all our effort and money spent we got to reorder the relations between nation states forever in a new legal framework banning wars of territorial aggression through the creation and chartering of the United Nations.

But in this case, we've spent all the money to fight a few thousand disorganized, lightly armed "insurgents". Who appear to be successfully waiting us out. And the edifice of international law created by ourselves and our allies at the end of WWII, paid for with the lives of millions, now lies in ruins - like our economy.

Now that is some Bang for your Buck.

[madinmaryland]

8. Heh! That's what you get when you have a business guy with an MBA who decides to

go to war! Sounds like a perfectly good "unregulated" business decision!