O-M-G...! $10B a MONTH in Afghanistan and Iraq...!
if you're at all savvy about these things, the question you MUST ask is, exactly where is that money ending up...? if some enterprising researcher/citizen journalist wanted to do a HUGE service to the american public, constructing a flow chart identifying the precise agencies in the u.s. government where the money started to flow, what intermediaries it passed through, and where it all finally came to rest would be oh-so-very interesting, wouldn't you think...?
perhaps i'm abysmally naive, but isn't finding out for us where our money goes one of the principal responsibilities of a free press in an open society...? no, scratch that... i'm not naive... that IS one of the principal responsibilities, it's just that "free" and "open" are highly questionable assumptions...
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The U.S. government is now spending nearly $10 billion a month in Iraq and Afghanistan, up from $8.2 billion a year ago, a new Congressional Research Service report found. Annual war costs in Iraq are easily outpacing the $61 billion a year that the United States spent in Vietnam between 1964 and 1972, in today's dollars.
perhaps i'm abysmally naive, but isn't finding out for us where our money goes one of the principal responsibilities of a free press in an open society...? no, scratch that... i'm not naive... that IS one of the principal responsibilities, it's just that "free" and "open" are highly questionable assumptions...
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posted by profmarcus at
4/20/2006
