Obama spends $9.5mil a day on Libyan Unwar!

[Wolfmoon]

Obama's unauthorized war on Libya costs $9,421,000 a day: Are you getting your money's worth?

"The Obama administration is spending almost $9.5 million every single day to blow things up in Libya because the president has determined that is in the country's national interest, this country's national interest, not Libya's."

"You may not have noticed the $392,542 flowing out of the national treasury every hour, day and night, since those first $1.5 million Tomahawks flashed from the launch tubes back on March 19."

 

[Oddball]

 

[Wolfmoon]

From article:

"How could the Nobel Peace Prize winner order a military intervention over a possible civilian massacre in Libya, which was not attacking the United States, but do nothing over an actual civilian massacre in Syria? And how exactly is avoiding a stain on the world conscience in the vital national interests of the United States?"

 

[Wolfmoon]

Lawmakers mock Obama claim on Libya hostilities

"The administration report estimated the cost of U.S. military operations at about $715 million as of June 3, with the total increasing to $1.1 billion by early September."

 

[random3434]

Get all the soldiers, US, British, French, et al the Hell out of there NOW!

 

[rightwinger]

That's a lot cheaper than the $200 million a day he was spending just to visit India

 

[waltky]

Bein' the world's policeman costin' too much money...

The Hill Poll: Majority says military involved in too many places
06/20/11 - An overwhelming number of voters believe the United States is involved in too many foreign conflicts and should pull back its troops, according to a new poll conducted for The Hill.

Seventy-two percent of those polled said the United States is fighting in too many places, with only 16 percent saying the current level of engagement represented an appropriate level. Twelve percent said they weren’t sure. Voters also do not think having U.S. soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq has made the country safer, according to the poll. Thirty-seven percent said the continued presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan makes no impact on national security, while another 17 percent said it makes the United States less safe. By contrast, 36 percent said the United States is safer because forces are in Afghanistan.

The findings reflect a fatigue with war after a decade dominated by U.S. invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan that are now unwinding. War fatigue was also highlighted by House votes last month on Afghanistan in which more Republicans than ever before supported withdrawing U.S. troops immediately. Those findings were echoed when voters were asked about Iraq. Forty percent said the military intervention in Iraq has made no difference when it comes to U.S. safety, compared to 32 percent who said the United States is safer because of it. Twenty percent said the country is less safe because of action in Iraq.

The United States has about 100,000 troops in Afghanistan and 50,000 support troops and military advisers in Iraq. U.S. forces are supporting NATO air strikes in Libya after initially playing a frontline role, and are also involved in counter-terrorism actions in Pakistan and Yemen. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to think the actions in Afghanistan and Iraq have made the United States safer, but a significant number of Republican voters think the country is either less safe or there has been no impact.

Forty-five percent of Republicans said the United States is safer because of involvement in Afghanistan, compared to 28 percent who said it has had no impact, 14 percent who say the country is less safe and 13 percent who say they aren’t sure. On Iraq, 43 percent of Republicans say involvement has made the United States safer, compared to 34 percent who say it has had no impact, 14 percent who say it is less safe and 9 percent who say they aren’t sure.

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[Wolfmoon]

Pentagon Crosses $1 Trillion Threshold in War on Terror Spending

6/21/11

"The Pentagon says it has spent at least $1 trillion prosecuting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and defending the U.S. homeland, according to newly released Defense Department figures through April 30.

Spending growth on Afghanistan operations helped push the Pentagon over the $1 trillion mark, increasing to $6.2 billion per month in April from $4.3 billion in the first two months of fiscal 2011 that began Oct. 1. Afghanistan spending in fiscal 2009, as Barack Obama became president, averaged $3.9 billion per month."

 

[rightwinger]

Obama's unauthorized war on Libya costs $9,421,000 a day: Are you getting your money's worth?

"The Obama administration is spending almost $9.5 million every single day to blow things up in Libya because the president has determined that is in the country's national interest, this country's national interest, not Libya's."

"You may not have noticed the $392,542 flowing out of the national treasury every hour, day and night, since those first $1.5 million Tomahawks flashed from the launch tubes back on March 19."

Glad to see some fiscal responsibility...

I bet you were really pissed off at Bushs $1.5 billion a week to occupy Iraq. Not to mention the 40 soldiers killed each week

 

[BolshevikHunter]

Bush + Obama = The same exact puppet. ~BH

 

[Dr.Drock]

That's a lot cheaper than the $200 million a day he was spending just to visit India

Sad how now warmongering is just a joke to you.




RIP to the toddlers and children our most recent bombs killed in Libya.

 

[rightwinger]

That's a lot cheaper than the $200 million a day he was spending just to visit India

Sad how now warmongering is just a joke to you.




RIP to the toddlers and children our most recent bombs killed in Libya.

Revolutions suck...people get killed

 

[uscitizen]

I guess he is just spending some of that 6.6 Billion that
Bush lost in Iraq.
Don't worry Obama has a long time to just catch up to the money Bush misplaced in Iraq.

 

[Dr.Drock]

That's a lot cheaper than the $200 million a day he was spending just to visit India

Sad how now warmongering is just a joke to you.




RIP to the toddlers and children our most recent bombs killed in Libya.

Revolutions suck...people get killed

Keep downplaying it, when Obama's decisions result in dead kids no big whoop.


I dunno which aspect is worse, the kids we're blowing up in Libya or the monsters we're putting in power who will end up doing god knows what.

 

[uscitizen]

imho we should not be involved in Libya, Iraq or Afganistan right now.