Posted on 09/08/2004 7:12:18 AM PDT by Phantom Lord
Kerry is on TV right now giving a "foreign policy speech". He is complaining about the cost of the Iraq war and that other countries are not paying enough of the cost.
He said that in Gulf War I, other countries paid 95% of the cost of the war. Thus the US only paid 5% of the costs.
My question, is this true?
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It will probably turn out that the US only paid 5% of Austrailia's fuel costs for their tanks or something like that. It's probably true for some obscure item somewhere, but not for the war as a whole.
Your link is not to the live thread.
we made money on that one japan gave lots.
I could care less what this lying, treasonist,phony has to say. Anyone who stabs his fellow military people in the back is not worth the powder to blow him to hell. This is what myself a vet thinks of this POS,
I remember reading that the Japanese ponied up a few billion.
(steely)
Wouldn't President Bush 41 forgiving hundreds of billions in debt owed to us by coalition countries have to be included as a "cost" incurred by the US?
The U.S. Department of Defense has estimated the cost of the Gulf War at $61 billion; however, other sources say that number could be as high as $71 billion. The operation was financed by more than $53 billion pledged by countries around the world, most of which came from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States ($36 billion) and Germany and Japan ($16 billion). Some of the money pledged by countries such as Saudi Arabia was delivered in the form of in-kind services to troops, such as transportation and food.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/gulf.war/facts/gulfwar/
Saudis also paid a huge proportion of the costs for GWI as well.
Is there any chance of all the media missing the irony here? I sure hope not!
Sounds to me like he's jummped to the other side of the fence again.
No idea if this is accurate or not:
http://people.psych.cornell.edu/~fhoran/gulf/GW_cost/GW_payments.html
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/gulf.war/facts/gulfwar/
The Cost
The U.S. Department of Defense has estimated the cost of the Gulf War at $61 billion; however, other sources say that number could be as high as $71 billion. The operation was financed by more than $53 billion pledged by countries around the world, most of which came from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States ($36 billion) and Germany and Japan ($16 billion). Some of the money pledged by countries such as Saudi Arabia was delivered in the form of in-kind services to troops, such as transportation and food.
Sorry. Try this:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210011/posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War#Cost
The cost of the war to the United States was calculated by Congress to be $61.1 billion; two-thirds of that amount was paid by Kuwait, Japan and Saudi-Arabia.
If true, it is brilliant! We went to war and made the other countries pay for it? WOOHOO! If whoever was president at that time passed those smarts off to his son, I sure would want to vote for him for president! Now who could that be . . . ?
According to the "HOUSE BUDGET COMMITTEE
Democratic Caucus The Honorable John M. Spratt Jr. # Ranking Democratic Member - Assessing the Cost of Military Action Against Iraq: Using Desert Shield / Desert Storm as a Basis for Estimates"
"Gross Cost of 1st Iraq War: $61 Billion
US Dept of Defense Budget Authority: $51 Billion
Allied Cash and In-Kind: $48.4 Billion
Net Cost to US Budget $2 Billion"
This may be where he's getting his info from. I don't know how reliable this is - but it could be what he's basing his assumption on.
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