Come on, it's got to be sooo easy to figure out. How much does a war cost?
How much doe a war REALLY cost?
Um, you gotta have some grunts, the people with boots on the ground -- the Army and Marines, you gotta have some boats -- the Navy, and you gotta have some aircraft -- primarily the Air Force -- but they're so damned busy proselytizing for their Jesus that they forgot how to fly.
What is it, a simple $1million per unit of personnel per year, that covers uniforms, armor and gear, support, food, shelter, whatever?
Boats and submarines are pretty pricey. Planes, other aircraft, especially when they don't fly, pretty pricey.
Oh yeah, we gotta cover $1trillion or so for the money that goes missing.
Add another $1trillion to feed the blood-sucking war contractors, Jesus, Dick Cheney has to get his cut on this.
And don't forget a $trillion or so for cost overrruns, general gouging by the bloodsucking war contractors and payoffs and other icky, tricky stuff that always goes on in a war.
And ... below the fold ....
Um, those other costs of war.
All the damn dead people. A scattering of dead combatants, a whole bunch of dead noncombatants. Defense, U.S. big shots, they don't like to know how many people, total, die.
Kids, women, old people, dogs, kitties, other critters. A whole bunch of dead bodies that we are supposed to avert our eyes from and not count how many. So we don't really know how many.
Then, there's the destroyed infrastructure.
Bombed out buildings and bridges and roads and schools and hospitals and all kinds of stuff in the war zone.
Bombed out buildings and bridges and roads and schools and hospitals and all kinds of stuff within the invading and occupying nation -- you see, when we spend money on war and feeding the blood-sucking war contractors we don't maintain our own infrastructure.
A bridge that falls down in Minnesota and kills thirteen people. Avert you eyes. Don't look. We gotta have Cheney's cut covered. F*** the bridges and roads and schools and hospitals -- and stuff.
Joblessness, unemployment in the invading and occupying nation, how many trillions does that cost?
Hungry families in this country because they are jobless or they don't earn a living wage, how many trillions does that cost?
Oops, don't forget the war zone where millions of people lose everything and are on the run. How many trillions does that cost?
Oh, yeah, and in the flux between the war zone and the invading and occupying nation, you've got a bunch of people coming back missing arms and legs and parts of their skulls and major parts of their hopes and dreams, and a whole bunch of PTSD. How many trillions does that cost?
And, the interest that you're paying on the money that Bush and Cheney borrowed for their "glorious" wars, and the general misery and woe that goes along with a war and all the stuff that will haunt us for years and years and years and a whole bunch of stuff involved in a war that I forgot or don't know about.
So, how much does a war cost? Really?