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No Compromise

(373 posts)
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 11:43 AM Jan 2013

Why are we spending more in Afghanistan in 2012 than in Iraq in 2004 ?

Supposedly the wars are winding down, but we are still paying over double the defense budget of the Clinton years.





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http://csis.org/files/publication/120515_US_Spending_Afghan_War_SIGAR.pdf

Bush more than doubled the defense budget while giving tax cuts and no one in the US Congress can figure out what happened to the economy?

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Why are we spending more in Afghanistan in 2012 than in Iraq in 2004 ? (Original Post) No Compromise Jan 2013 OP
we've always got money to throw at wars. it's the american way think Jan 2013 #1
It's the 1%ers way No Compromise Jan 2013 #2
Not "we". "They"! n/t L0oniX Jan 2013 #3
we are letting the lunatics run the asylum No Compromise Jan 2013 #4
Drones aren't cheap? I dunno. Puzzledtraveller Jan 2013 #5
I don't want to live in a world with drones everywhere No Compromise Jan 2013 #7
More than $2 billion a week for war!! Comrade Grumpy Jan 2013 #6
Inflation, in number of contractors and bribes. dixiegrrrrl Jan 2013 #8
Great question. Octafish Jan 2013 #9
yes, how do we make them answer that question? No Compromise Jan 2013 #10
They are logistical costs for preparing to pull out. OneTenthofOnePercent Jan 2013 #11
The more hopeless the war the more we will spend. former9thward Jan 2013 #12
kick No Compromise Jan 2013 #13
 

No Compromise

(373 posts)
4. we are letting the lunatics run the asylum
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 02:28 PM
Jan 2013

there must be a way we can get them in a straight jacket where they belong

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
8. Inflation, in number of contractors and bribes.
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 04:31 PM
Jan 2013

Afghanistan is a bigger country.
Contracts increased as # of contractors increased.
Many DOD contracts are for 5 years or longer, with increases built in.

 

OneTenthofOnePercent

(6,268 posts)
11. They are logistical costs for preparing to pull out.
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 09:25 PM
Jan 2013

Everything of value we brought in over the last severa years that can be brought back needs prepped/IDed/packed and made ready for shipment. Some operations need transferred to civillian contractors and companies. You've got to hurry up and train afghan forces to take care of themselves, train their pilots, build up their military infrastructure and wrap up loose ends.

It's not like they look at a calender and say, "well today's the day. lets get outta here" - and hop in their M-ATVs and drive off. It;s taken several years to get al this shit where/how it is today. Gonna take either alot of effort to get it out in just a year.

Edit: I have feeling that a lot of assets and stuff will simply jump across the mediterranian to Yemen, Djibouti, and other terrorist hot spots used for training in NE Africa. Never ending wars, ya know.

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