U.S. Discretionary Spending: Fiscal Year 2011

Real Cost of War- $4 Trillion

Business Insider provides description of recent study

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost the US $3.7 trillion according to research from the Watson Institute at Brown University.

This is astoundingly more than the $1 trillion figure named in 2010 by the CBO, which ignored significant portions of current and future military spending.

The academic report looked at interest, Pentagon war appropriations, additions to the Pentagon and Homeland Security budgets, veterans' medical and disability, social costs to veterans and military families. It also evaluated the human, social and political costs of the war.

Syrian Protesters Burn USD Fiat as They Attack US Em

Yahoo! News Canada

Syrian government supporters smashed windows at the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Monday, raised a Syrian flag and scrawled graffiti calling the American ambassador a "dog" in anger over the envoy's visit last week to an opposition stronghold, witnesses said.

Whom ever said that confidence in a currency had nothing to with overseas aggression and interventionism. should rethink their thesis.

New Documentary on Israeli Abuses in Occupied Territory

A new documentary by Break the Silence campaign is set for imminent release featuring Israeli soldiers speaking out, many for the first time, on atrocities committed by the US sponsored Israeli Defense Force against Palestinians in occupied territory.

Sticker Shock: Libyan Intervention 600 million

ABC- Politics

 One week after an international military coalition intervened in Libya, the cost to U.S. taxpayers has reached at least $600 million, according figures provided by the Pentagon. 

• U.S. ships and submarines have launched at least 191Tomahawk cruise missiles from their arsenals, costing $268.8 million.
•  U.S. warplanes have dropped 455 precision guided bombs, costing tens of thousands of dollars each.  

•  A downed Air Force F-15E fighter jet will cost more than $60 million to replace.  

West Point Study Gives Perspective On Little-Known Libyan Rebels

As should be no surprise to most, the United States recently launched its third war of aggression in less than a decade. To say the United States' military is globally overstretch, would be speak an understatement. The 10-year campaign in Afghanistan rolls along abetted, combat troops remain firmally anchored in Iraq (despite media-spin otherwise) and now the bombing campaign set in Northern Africa.

The UN Anglo-American global government campaign launched Operation Odyssey Dawn Saturday, March 19 with Western Fascist French and British bombers began unloading Tomahawk Cruise Missiles onto the Nation-state of Libya. The US would proceed to take over the main operations and now supposedly will hand over the remaining duties to NATO.

Webster Griffin Tarpley discusses study which gives perspective upon rebel Libyan forces which appear to have been CIA/MI6 co-opted, much the same as Al-Qaeda in Iraq.


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