“Taking the new budget into account, the Defense Department has been granted about $7.2 trillion since 1998, when the post-Cold War decline in defense spending ended.”
[http://original.antiwar.com/carl-conetta/2010/03/03/the-pentagons-runaway-budget/]
That’s $7.2 Trillion that has been siphoned into the DoD's coffers and black hole during the past 12 years. And I don’t think this includes the astounding $2.3 Trillion Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld declared the Pentagon had misplaced (due to some accounting errors?) in a press conference on September 10, 2001. (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml)
Heck, a Trillion dollars is a stack of $1000 bill 67.9 miles long, or high, depending on how one visualizes is. So, that’s 9.5 of those stacks for the DoD (ya, 9 long and one short stack of only half a Trillion dollars…lol). That’s 645 miles of thousand dollar bills. That adds up to some real money
Of course, there's this to put Buzsh’s (and now Obama’s) War in some perspective...
http://www.vawatchdog.com/milcom/bushsvahealthcarebudgetarecipefordisaster.htm
http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070213/news_1n13vets.html
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
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