Afghanistan
How Much is $250 Billion?
By: Jeff Hackman As of early 2010, the war in Afghanistan will cost the American taxpayer over $250 billion. We’re adding well over $1 billion more to that total each week. How much money is $250,000,000,000? How much is one billion? How long does it take for a billion seconds to pass? There are 86,400 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The $800 Million-Dollar Man
by Jeff Hackman On the day after Obama’s speech, I chose to wear black. It is a sad day for the vast majority of Americans. Even more of our resources–in money, but more importantly in lives and talents–will be wasted in Afghanistan. ABC News had a great post by their investigative unit led by Brian [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )The War in Afghanistan: Your Bill is About to Go up by 50%
As of September, the war in Afghanistan was costing US …. $4,000,000,000 per month; $133,333,333 per day; $5.5 million per hour; $92,592 per minute; $1,543.21 per second It costs at least $775,000 to keep one US soldier in Afghanistan for a year. This is three times as expensive as any other war the US [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )8 Years is Enough: Out of Afghanistan Now!
by Jeff Hackman Item: 18-year-old Pfc. Matthew E. Wildes, of Hammond, La., was killed by an IED on Aug. 27. Item: The commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan will ask for 20,000 more international troops. This of course is in addition to the Obama surge of 17,000 additional US troops already sent this year. Item: [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Hellfire in Af-Pak
A CIA-operated spy plane over Pakistan on Jan. 23–a full three days into the Obama administration–fired three Hellfire missiles on the property of Haji Khalil Dawar, killing 10 people and injuring several others. 1 Each Hellfire missile that the drones fire in the wars costs more than what my wife and I make in a [...]
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