We spent $62 million on Tomahawk missiles to attack Libya this week...

[rfranklin]

That is just the cost of the missiles. That doesn't count the cost of sending the ships, the airplanes, and the personnel which would probably double the cost.

General Characteristics

Primary Function: Long-range subsonic cruise missile for striking high value or heavily defended land targets.
Contractor: Raytheon Systems Company, Tucson, AZ.
Date Deployed: Block II TLAM-A IOC - 1984
Block III – IOC 1994
Block IV – IOC expected 2004.
Unit Cost: Approximately $569,000 (FY99 $).
Propulsion: Block II/III TLAM-A, C & D - Williams International F107 cruise turbo-fan engine; ARC/CSD solid-fuel booster
Length: 18 feet 3 inches (5.56 meters); with booster: 20 feet 6 inches (6.25 meters).

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=2200&tid=1300&ct=2

[Le Taz Hot]

There's always enough money to kill people in wars.

It's quick and clean. Starving a nation's economy and social programs, however, that takes time and effort and a good deal of "bi-partisanship."

K & R

[xchrom]

1. recommend

[Jakes Progress]

2. Ahhh. Raytheon loves the smell of strategic attack in the morning.

[midnight]

3. And Paul Ryan thinks this country deficit problem is due to

paying for education, livable wages, and affordable health care.... Washington needs to act more responsibly....

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. How much did we spend feeding hungry kids?

Dare I even ask?

[old mark]

5. K&R- Don't worry- we will save that and more by raising the retirement age

for you younger people-provided you can ever find a job in the first place...


mark

[malaise]

6. War is so much more profitable than peace

Killing brown people is one hell of an industry

[rfranklin]

7. Just found out that figure doesn't include...

the guidance package or warhead. Add another $50 million to that price.

[Marblehead]

8. ain't capitalism grand?

[sarcasmo]

9. War good, social security and pensions bad.

[meow mix]

10. Yeah we should only save people that are "worth it" thier "value" must exceed the "cost"

so sick of this disgusting non-stop rant.

[bvar22]

11. Who next?

Help me out here.

Provide an example of a Middle East Military Intervention that ended well.

In Afghanistan, we put the Taliban in power,
and now our kids are dying to supress the Taliban and keep an even bigger crook, Hamid Karzai, in power.
We've been there 11 years, ans there is NO end in sight.

In Lebanon, we wound up putting Hezbollah in power.


We Took Out Saddam, and look what happened.
We are looking at Indefinite Occupation with 50,000 troops and at least 80,000 "contractors".

Somalia?
LOL


Who next?
The World has no shortage of Bad Guys.
We are already spending our Rent, Food, and Medicine money on our Military.
How much furhter are you willing to go?

If your concerns are "Humanitarian",
how many more Americans would you deprive of Health Care, Food, or Education to pay for it?

Once we start killing people in Libya (yesterday), how do we stop?
What is the Exit Strategy?

It really is much more complicated than, "YeeHaw! Take him out!!!".

[Posteritatis]

12. I'd be interested to see peoples' opinion of the dollar value of an American versus a brown person.

I doubt I'd get a straight answer, but you can tell a lot of people here think there's definitely a cost issue there.

[IamK]

13. they are hiring, its job creation

http://www.rayjobs.com/index.cfm?NavID=122&TUCSON_JOBS

[undeterred]

14. Whats the difference between a Tomahawk and a Cruise missile?

I'm so confused.

[Marengo]

15. The Tomahawk is a type of cruise missile N/T

[ladjf]

16. That's OK. We can just fire a few hundred thousand teachers

and public workers to make up for it.