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Want to bet we are not watching. President Obama has about three months to show some real results in Afghanistan. Results such as Bin Laden's head. Results such as the Taliban in defeat with no support from the Afghan people.
You fools gave Bush and his cabal of incompetants eight full years to demonstrate that they could blow 3 Trillion dollars with no positive results. Now President Obama inherited the whole mess that you helped create. There is no way that he can straighten it out in only six months. But, by the end of this year, the mess is his completely. If he fails by then to have a plan to get us out of there, and stop our fiscal hemoraging in Iraq and Afghanistan, he will have to answer for his failure.
seems since the new prez is in office...no one mentions the death toll of the wars:
here is a good site....breaks it down....
iCasualties | Operation Enduring Freedom
no american should forget what is going on overseas and the toll this is taking on our military. we have the luxury of being arm chair quarterbacks....these men and woman dont.
This is great. Really great. The Republicans think it's a mistake to pull out of Iraq and the Republican criticize Obama on dead members of the military and if no one died, the Republicans would say that Obama isn't taking the fight to the enemy. I imagine if Obama gets UBL, the Republicans will criticize that as well...
The party of no alright. The party of no relevance.
The final cost of the war, considering all costs, will easily exceed 3 trillion dollars.
The Iraq War Will Cost Us $3 Trillion, and Much More
The Iraq War Will Cost Us $3 Trillion, and Much More - washingtonpost.com
By Linda J. Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz
Sunday, March 9, 2008; Page B01
There is no such thing as a free lunch, and there is no such thing as a free war. The Iraq adventure has seriously weakened the U.S. economy, whose woes now go far beyond loose mortgage lending. You can't spend $3 trillion -- yes, $3 trillion -- on a failed war abroad and not feel the pain at home.
Some people will scoff at that number, but we've done the math. Senior Bush administration aides certainly pooh-poohed worrisome estimates in the run-up to the war. Former White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey reckoned that the conflict would cost $100 billion to $200 billion; Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld later called his estimate "baloney." Administration officials insisted that the costs would be more like $50 billion to $60 billion. In April 2003, Andrew S. Natsios, the thoughtful head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said on "Nightline" that reconstructing Iraq would cost the American taxpayer just $1.7 billion. Ted Koppel, in disbelief, pressed Natsios on the question, but Natsios stuck to his guns. Others in the administration, such as Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, hoped that U.S. partners would chip in, as they had in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, or that Iraq's oil would pay for the damages.
The end result of all this wishful thinking? As we approach the fifth anniversary of the invasion, Iraq is not only the second longest war in U.S. history (after Vietnam), it is also the second most costly -- surpassed only by World War II.
seems since the new prez is in office...no one mentions the death toll of the wars:
here is a good site....breaks it down....
iCasualties | Operation Enduring Freedom
no american should forget what is going on overseas and the toll this is taking on our military. we have the luxury of being arm chair quarterbacks....these men and woman dont.
seems since the new prez is in office...no one mentions the death toll of the wars:
here is a good site....breaks it down....
iCasualties | Operation Enduring Freedom
no american should forget what is going on overseas and the toll this is taking on our military. we have the luxury of being arm chair quarterbacks....these men and woman dont.
obama just moved the goal posts.. now he "promises to have the troops out by the end of 2011." (Iraq)