Posted on 03/19/2013 6:39:57 AM PDT by algernon_garnock
In case you were wondering, the price tag for the war in Iraq could eventually top $6 trillion.
Tuesday marks the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion, occupation and slugfest of Iraq, which, lest we forget, was begun in the name of protecting us from weapons of mass destruction that never existed.
A study by Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies finds that the war has cost $1.7 trillion so far, with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans.
Those costs could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next 40 years, the report concluded.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Thank you for those links. I appreciate it very much.
What else could’ve been done?
A massive bombing campaign, followed by the complete destruction of Iraq’s military and government, with a very pointed message sent before we went home:
“Mess with us again, and you’ll beg us to kill you.”
The purpose in a war of self-defense is to make the person threatening you so scared of you that he will never even think about threatening you again. Maybe if we did that instead of trying to win the world’s approval, we wouldn’t be getting dragged in to endless wars and occupations.
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