Mar 29

100 million dollars a day

6 days, 600 million dollars according to ABC News’ George Stephanopoulis. Excuse me, don’t we have budget deficits in the trillions? Don’t we have a debt of 14.3 trillion dollars? Go ahead and try to cut a lousy, chump change-like 61 billion from the budget and they scream like little girls, yet think of nothing about spending 100 million dollars a day in a civil war that is none of our business in a country that posed no threat to us, all for oil.

Make no mistake about it. This is only about oil, nothing more. Most of the countries that comprise the coalition, are dependant on Libyan oil. Maybe Iraq was too, but I’m not convinced of that. I think it was more personal. Saddam Hussein tried to kill Bush’s dad, and you know what happens when you mess with somebody’s family. I would have done the same thing.

One week after an international military coalition intervened in Libya, the cost to U.S. taxpayers has reached at least $600 million, according figures provided by the Pentagon.

U.S. ships and submarines in the Mediterranean have unleashed at least 191 Tomahawk cruise missiles from their arsenals to the tune of $268.8 million, the Pentagon said.

U.S. warplanes have dropped 455 precision guided bombs, costing tens of thousands of dollars each.

A downed Air Force F-15E fighter jet will cost more than $60 million to replace.

And operation of the war craft, guzzling ever-expensive fuel to maintain their positions off the Libyan coast and in the skies above, could reach millions of dollars a week, experts say.