How much is this shit costing

[bigdarryl]

No money for health care, the unemployed 99'ers or education but money for DAMN!! WAR

[meow mix]

1. yeah we should only help those who are worth it.. thier worth as humans must exceed the cost.

isolationism rules!!

[Make7]

2. Won't it pay for itself with oil revenues?

Just like Iraq...
 

[DURHAM D]

3. Iraq is not paying for itself.

[golfguru]

18. Why are we getting Iraq get away without paying for its rebuild

expenses? We liberated Iraq from Saddam at tremendous cost of blood & treasure
and the least they could do is for their own rebuilding. I recall Obama bringing
this up during campaign but have been disappointed so far with no action.

[Starry Messenger]

4. They are lying when they say we are "broke"

There is always money for what is "important" to those in power. There is money to do the things that will help people, it just doesn't profit corporations to give it to us. Therefore those programs have to be cut. Getting the picture?

[ReturnoftheDjedi]

5. how much does it cost for the French to send jets? It costs us nothing.

Get the facts before you begin your flailing.

[Exilednight]

9. You might want to do some fact checking yourself. Here's a few things you might not

realize. US aircraft will be involved. US AWACS planes will be needed to scout out mobile SAM and anti-aircraft guns. US Apache helicopters will be needed to fly low-level missions to take out moving targets and cut supply lines. It's also very naive to think that US is not going to send in warplanes for the initial attacks.

Once all known targets are removed, the warplanes might be removed, but our AWACS and helicopters will still stay in theater. There's also no telling how far this may escalate.

[AnOhioan]

11. Not to mention the US planning on using cruise missles...

against Libyan air defense facilities/positions. It will cost us plenty in dollars and cents, but then we all knew that.

[golfguru]

19. and those Tomahawks we just fired cost a fortune each

[tabatha]

6. Other countries are taking lead roles; not the US.

[Exilednight]

10. Just because other countries are playing a lead role, it doesn't mean that we're not playing

a supporting role. Either way it costs money.

[Sky Masterson]

7. Ask the war dead how much it cost.

.

[MissDeeds]

8. Thank you

Spot on.

[FrenchieCat]

12. How much for one dead brown Libyan who been ruled by a tyrant for 42 years.....

do you know?

[sad sally]

13. And no need to worry about Japan anymore - we got another military intervention

that's a hell of lot more important.

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[ProSense]

15. What's with the outrage?

It's costing about $150 billion less than the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

It would be good to be outraged about those, but why the sudden outrage about an action that isn't being led by the U.S.?

On edit, there are even some Republicans Senators mentioning the cost of this action. Maybe they can rally around ending the $3 trillion wars.

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[ProSense]

17. And I'm saying

that's BS

[rug]

20. It will pay for itself in the polls. War presidents usually do well.

[wysingm]

21. How much is this shit costing

Full no-fly-zone - $100 to $300 million per week

http://www.csbaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/2011.03.09-Libya-No-Fly-Zone.pdf

.

[wysingm]

22. Tomahawk

The Pentagon says U.S. and British ships and submarines have launched the first phase of a missile assault on Libyan air defenses, firing 112 Tomahawk cruise missiles at more than 20 targets along the coast.

Tomahawk, introduced by General Dynamics in the 1970s. Price tag $569,000

.

[cottonseed]

23. Then go do something more constructive then spamming the same message...

over and over again on a message board...

[ClarkUSA]

24. I'm glad France didn't ask themselves that before taking sides w/the American colonists in 1778.

I am glad France is leading again and I am proud this President is supporting the international community's (that includes the Arab League) decision.

It's sentiments like yours that would have kept the US out of WWI and WWII.

[krabigirl]

25. Plenty of money. Just speeding toward going completely bankrupt.

At least when we are, we won't be able to afford any more wars.