The Three Trillion Dollar War

[expat girl]

[quote=Auditor #9]

How does anyone place a cost on war. If your family have been slaughtered and your home destroyed the cost is total. If your son comes home a cripple, what is the cost to you? There is something vile about costing war.

Now , there's a point.[/quote:3thyt4vr]

Couldn't agree more. Sadly I suspect this figure is obtained simply on the cost of the ammo, equipment and army wages and transport, and probably doesn't even factor in the long term costs, both monetary and otherwise, of deaths and injuries on all sides. Self and family paid taxes in the UK while these wars were persecuted (until 6 months go), am still fuming at the involuntary use of our tax revenues to persecute these illegal conflicts. For anyone who wants the UK cost figures, the wars had cost 15billion as of last spring, a few months before GB resigned as Chancellor (radio interview, BBC I think)

yours rantingly

[905]

[quote=expat girl][quote="Auditor #9":a1s4lqg0]

How does anyone place a cost on war. If your family have been slaughtered and your home destroyed the cost is total. If your son comes home a cripple, what is the cost to you? There is something vile about costing war.

Now , there's a point.[/quote:a1s4lqg0]

Couldn't agree more. Sadly I suspect this figure is obtained simply on the cost of the ammo, equipment and army wages and transport, and probably doesn't even factor in the long term costs, both monetary and otherwise, of deaths and injuries on all sides. Self and family paid taxes in the UK while these wars were persecuted (until 6 months go), am still fuming at the involuntary use of our tax revenues to persecute these illegal conflicts. For anyone who wants the UK cost figures, the wars had cost 15billion as of last spring, a few months before GB resigned as Chancellor (radio interview, BBC I think)

yours rantingly [/quote:a1s4lqg0]
I think it does include all cost relating to injuries, deaths etc. I tcertainly includes veteran pension figures.

[pauriceenjack]

The UK operation seems to be much more cost effective 15 plus Billion compared to Three Billion