Posted on 04/11/2011 9:24:34 AM PDT by quesney
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon said Monday the military intervention in Libya cost the U.S. an extra $608 million in the first few of weeks of the operation. Spending is down significantly, though not as much as expected. Defense Department spokeswoman Navy Cmdr. Kathleen Kesler said it will take several weeks to tally exactly how much has been spent. But $608 million is the price tag officials have estimated through April 4 — or for 17 days of the mission, the most recent figures available. The estimate shows a large drop from what the U.S. spent in the early days of the multinational operation that started March 19 — roughly $55 million a day in the first 10 days, then about $8.3 million a day in the seven that followed.
Still, very rough projections late last month estimated costs would decline even more than that as the U.S. handed lead of the operation to NATO. The alliance would also conduct most of the bombing missions. Officials didn't explain what caused the higher-than-expected rate of spending. It's possible at least part is due to the fact that the full transition to NATO went a little slower than expected.
It is the second time the Pentagon has released costs for setting up the no-fly zone in the North African nation and protecting civilians from strongman Moammar Gadhafi as he resists a movement to oust him.
Officials late last month said the added spending from March 19 through March 28, the first 10 days of the intervention, was $550 million. About 60 percent was for munitions. The remaining costs were for "higher operating tempo" of U.S. forces and of getting them there.
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Did Boehner cut your son's pay in half?
Hint: The Speaker of the House doesn't have the power to do that. Indeed, the House is the body that appropriated the money he was to be paid with in the first place.
O.K. Who did it?
The Pentagon. Isn't that who cuts military pay checks?
Who does the Pentagon report to?
Hint: It ain't the Speaker of the House. It's the President.
And that would be who?
And exactly what was it you believe Boehner and the House should have done? They passed a bill that authorized the military be paid in full in the event of a government shutdown. What else should they have done?
Your ire is legitimate. But shouldn't it be directed toward those who are actually responsible?
“Actually, going into Libya is really a brilliant move by Obama.”
For us ... it exposes hypocrisy on iraq (yeah, he never withdrew from iraq either) and shows what little coherence and pretext liberals have for their foriegn adventures.
They told me if I voted for McCain we’d get gitmo trials, endless wars in the mideast, tax cuts for the rich, and
trillion dolalr deficits.
Well, I voted for Mccain and by gum, they were right!
Just think of the response of your children when they are poor and hopeless at age 30 when they think back to all these worthless expenditures by nobama, the great leader.
Why is Hussein spending so MUCH just to LOSE a war? You know he is - but WHY?
Just my 2 cents worth, here....but what if this was ‘all a show’ because of the release of the Lockerbie bomber? The UK and this administration were left with egg on their faces after the the Wikileaks dump. The release was all for an oil deal.
Or a bucket full of lobster for the First Fatarse.
Nice try. But you specifically claimed that Boehner protected military pay in the House bill. Obviously he did not.
Yo Okie01, now he did or he didn’t. You can’t have it both ways.
It’s been four months since conservatives took back the House with a foolproof majority. Including the charade of the budget “negotiations”, name me one thing that Boehner has accomplished for America.
We still have Onadacare and Onada’s cripple America energy policy. We’re still funding NPR. It’s not even clear to me that the current stopgap budget really does defund tax payer funded abortion. EPA continues to run amok and Marxist teachers unions continue to control educating our children—from day care through college.
Please, tell me how Boehner has made America better. You could tell me that he and the House cannot fix everything all at once. I agree with that. But I don’t see that he’s even made a start. Heck, instead of the $100 billion in cuts that Boehner boasted at the beeginning of the budget dance we got $38 billion. As I said, that isn’t even a credible start.
I’d like to know both the fully allocated cost and the incremental cost.
What’s the replacement cost of the missles that were fired?
It’s true we would have paid those soldiers anyway. But in Afghanistan we have incremental soldiers that we wouldn’t be paying if we weren’t at war.
Bush use to keep the incremental war costs separate from the normal budget. Obama combined the two so that it would be harder to reduce spending when the wars ended.
The House passed it. The Senate failed to do so. The President threatened to veto it if it came to his desk.
The House, by itself, cannot pass legislation. They did what they could.
Obviously, it is the Senate and the President who writes the checks that failed the troops. Why are you unable to admit that?
Especially when, in the event of a government shutdown, it is the President who determines who is and is not "non-essential". And who will be paid...and who won't.
Please name one thing Boehner has done for America in the four months since the last election. This is really the point of our little discussion, isn’t it?
No. The point is the puzzling misdirection of your ire.
And you still have not named one thing Boehner has done for America.
Perhaps being “electable” is far more important to you than The Constitution, moral and ideological principle and doing what’s right for your country.
That's what liberals do when they've lost the argument.
Ta-ta.
Cost: $1,066,465 - Even after the volume discount!
An unusually large number of “young” people voted for Obama in 2008. They thought it was cool to do so. For many it was their first Presidential election.
Now they've gotten hard civics lesson on anti-energy, taxing raising, high spending and no plan emotion driven wars... The cost of nearly everything is skyrocketing, jobs are sparse, particularly for the young.
A hard lesson about political rhetoric vs. reality.
just wait until the real humanitarian mission begins. libya will seem like the 51st state once the liberals really get going . . .
Where have you been?
Google up "Libya refugees". This is about flooding the West with illiterate, tribal Islamic terrorists refugees. By-pass all of that trivial background checks and just resettle violent, sloven barbarians among the civilized West. Welfare entitlements to rise accordingly.
Duh, at the last report we had burned over two hundred of them, that is over 220 million just for tommyhawks..
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