A Pentagon memo whose content was revealed today by the Financial Times shows that the cost of America’s involvement in the war in Libya is around $2 million per day, putting the cost well ahead of previous estimates of $40 million a month to more like $60 million a month.
The revelation throws further into doubt the Obama Administration’s latest war particularly with Congress already up in arms about the lack of oversight given on the conflict, which began in mid-March.
Despite the growing opposition and two resolutions from both houses of Congress chiding the administration about the war, officials insist it will continue. Admiral Michael Mullen insisted NATO has no clue when the conflict will end, but Secretary of Defense Robert Gates assured that US troops would still be involved whenever that is.
Despite increasingly shrill claims of progress, the war in Libya appears stalemated and destined to last for months, if not years. Britain’s defense secretary was up front about this, saying it would probably still be going on past Christmas. For a Congress coping with an already staggering deficit and facing growing doubts about the nation’s myriad wars, this may be far too long, and far too expensive, to tolerate.
If we are not participating, what are the costs? What happened to the war that will last "…days not weeks…"?????
Well, obviously it is quite allright with the people of America, that the president is an obvious liar. Too difficult a matter to judge, perhaps. Or one that is is unpleasant to consider. Either way it speaks very badly of those characters with no or little civilised value.
Democrats and Republicans love a liar,… when he's from their party.
15,000 dead. What happened to "humanitarian intervention"?
That is Humanitarian Intervention. Death ends all suffering.
Remember the Iraq oil will pay for the war. I am sure we will get the same statements form the same people. I did notice that hillary is up to be placed on the world bank. Since libya was attempting to put Africa on the gold standard and the customers pay for oil in Gold I can understand why he was attacked by the colonial powers aka NATO. How can the world continue to support the military complex and have the restrictions of hard currency. Is it not just American to debase the currency and steal the saving of the senior citizens to pay for the war of choice. Hillary to the world bank is just keeping the tradition of rewarding those the will do anything for another war. Did not Wolfowich have the same reward for starting the Iraq fiasco but he dated an arab woman which made him unacceptable to the powerful.
Costs mean nothing when you can debase the money and that is what the attacks in Libya is all about. The next war in Syria and Iran are pure hate and aggression which make them unlike Libya which is a banking war.
Great comment! Notice how Iraq was attacked after Saddam priced his oil in terms of euros not dollars. Iran is a target and it refuses to accept dollars in payment for its oil. That oil is still priced in dollars and the fact that other fiat currencies have thier own warts is the only thing saving the dollar from total collapse. The valid point could be made that all these countries are also sitting on large oil reserves (Iran has the second largest oil reserves in the world and who can forget the sweet crude in Libya) What this point fails to take into account is it does not matter who owns the oil so long as all one has to do to buy the oil is crank up the digital printing press.
But the plan has always been that none of the wars will ever come to an end. The bankers and money lenders can't make profits without war. I wonder if the American taxpayer will ever wake up to the fact that the War on Terror is nothing but an elaborate scam designed to rob them of what little they have left.
I think the figures are wrong and way too small, frankly – that would hardly cover the opil the are burning and feeding the troops etc. Talk about rubbery figures.
A couple of weeks ago the US had undertaken 2000 strike misssions against Libya: each of those missiles cost about $1million (and they are obviously firing more than one as a rule)
which looks closer to $2 billion to me than $60 Mill – they just lie and klie and lie – and where is the money coming from – are they using the $30Billion they stole from Libya ?
Bloody Thieving Murdering Empire: Yankees go home, please.
As Gomer Pyle would say …… "Surprise, surprise, SURPISE."
Like the military ever did anything under budget.
Who knew a kinetic action could cost so much?
Remember the book The Bonfire of the Vanities? Let me quote, " In the Lopwitz analysis, they had Lyndon Johnson to thank. Ever so quietly, the U.S. had started printing money by the billions to finance the war in Vietnam. Before anyone, even Johnson, knew what was happening, a worldwide inflation had begun. Everyone woke up to it when Arabs suddenly jacked up oil prices in the early 1970s. In no time, markets of all sorts became heaving crap-shoots: gold, silver, copper, currencies, bank certificates…." And the wars are going on, and on, and on… And the money is being printed not by billions now, but by trillions ….