Wars Force Army Equipment Costs To Triple

[Barrett808]

Wars Force Army Equipment Costs To Triple
Annual Cost Expected To Balloon As Wars Take Toll On Military

(AP) WASHINGTON The annual cost of replacing, repairing and upgrading Army equipment in Iraq and Afghanistan is expected to more than triple next year to more than $17 billion, according to Army documents obtained by the Associated Press.

From 2002 to 2006, the Army spent an average of $4 billion a year in annual equipment costs. But as the war takes a harder toll on the military, that number is projected to balloon to more than $12 billion for the federal budget year that starts next Oct. 1, the documents show.

The $17 billion also includes an additional $5 billion in equipment expenses that the Army requested in previous years but has not yet been provided.

The latest costs include the transfer of more than 1,200 2 1/2-ton trucks, nearly 1,100 Humvees and $8.8 million in other equipment from the U.S. Army to the Iraqi security forces.

Army and Marine Corps leaders are expected to testify before Congress Tuesday and outline the growing costs of the war -- with estimates that it will cost between $12 billion and $13 billion a year for equipment repairs, upgrades and replacements from now on.

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http://kdka.com/topstories/topstories_story_177183915.html

[babylonsister]

1. When does the US run out of money? nt

[Barrett808]

2. When China stops financing us. n/t

[babylonsister]

3. And then they own us. nt

[cliss]

4. When does the creditor cut off the debtor?

I wonder. At some point, China is going to realize they are complicit in this madness. George Bush is the drunk. He's the maniac at the wheel, and China is the dysfunctional wife who buys booze for the hubby, even goes down to the local liquor store to pick up a big gallon bottle of Jim Beam.

Surely they must know that as the US goes down in flames, they will too.

The issue is, what are they going to do about it?

[OwnedByFerrets]

5. I realize that this explanation is too simplistic,

but I have heard that the belief that we are too important to the world market is why we aren't sinking faster now. As soon as that belief disappears, the US is doomed to be another failed empire. All thanks to one insane fascist and his fascist administration.

[Amonester]

6. At some point, China's strategy becomes 'clear'

They already 'know' they will soon become this century's biggest super-power so, maybe they're playing 'good dog' in the meantime, like they must think they're just 'accelerating' the 'last previous' greatest super-power's downfall (aka. The Divided States of America).

Hypocrits, yes, but 'hard-werk'ers...

[gratuitous]

7. Now look at all we've won with the saber and the gun

Tell me, is it worth it all?

Phil Ochs

[Zech Marquis]

8. there's one way to save money

bring all the troops home. no more of thse damn wars to corporate interests!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. During WWII the Truman commision investigated war profiteering

Have the asshats in the Republican Senate done the same? I don't think so. Why do they hate their country so much?

Investigating war profiteering should be a top Democratic issue this fall.



:mad: :argh: :grr:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

10. "Why do they hate their country so much?"

They don't hate the country, really. They just hate us, you me and all like us. We're what they call "One-Fodder Units" and they hold us in the greatest contempt.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. The let me rephrase that.

Why do they hate our armed forces so much?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

12. Because they see them...

as One-Fodder Units as well. Expendable. A fungible comodity that serves them no purpose once they are no longer able to pick up a gun for them.

[TexasLawyer]

13. Keeping America Strong!

By bankrupting it.

[grytpype]

14. We're buying equipment for the Iraqi Army.

How nice of us taxpayers to do something for the Islamic Republic of Iraq.

[tanyev]

15. Well that's working out very well for the suppliers to the war machine.

[mike923]

16. Costs of aluminum, steel, copper, ect...

have gone through the roof the last few years. While the sales numbers are up for such suppliers, their profits aren't corrisponding nearly as much.

[ConcernedCanuk]

17. Gee - I got a silly idea - STOP MAKING WARS on defenseless countries!!

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All that shock and awe shit with million dollar bombs on a country with only 20 million people and a defense system that never even got them one plane in the air

And the Iraqis are picking off the USA military with weenie rifles and home made bombs . .

And the Iraqis will continue to kill USA military and anyone that supports them until the USA and it's "coalition" leave Iraq . .

SO LEAVE ALREADY!!

(doh)