People who call Operation Iraqi Freedom a war, show little respect for Wars of the past.
The cost of the war alone seems to be the first objection.
I just wanted to check for myself how the numbers compared. I am not saying the war is right or wrong, the reaction to it is. Why such an outrage over the cost of the war over 6 years when we have spent 5 trillion on the bailout since May. When there is 3x that amount potentially at default in the credit market. The war is with wall street, they have done more damage in a shorter period of time than George Bush or the Iraq War, and appear completely unaccountable by the public or the press.
By the end of 2007 there were an estimated $45 trillion to $62.2
trillion worth of credit default swap contracts outstanding worldwide. 15.5 Trillion in the United States.
The annual US debt obligation runs around 1 trillion.
The total US Debt is totaled at 10 Trillion.
The Cost of the Iraq War is totaled at 600 Billion and relative cost.
The Current Cost of the Bailout is 5 Trillion.
Regarding the war. The enlistment in WWII seems to have been forgotten by most Americans already. Roughly 58% of Military aged men:
16 million is the normal figure of US men in the military over the
duration of World War II, and the US population was 131 million at the
time of the 1940 census, with roughly 28 million males between the age
of 15 and 40. source
for Iraq the enlistment numbers are harder to find and I just can not keep looking for an up to date source. The only number I have found is 160,000 in 2004, which predated the "surge".
160,000 vs 16 million can you really call both of them the same thing?
The cost of the war alone seems to be the first objection.
I just wanted to check for myself how the numbers compared. I am not saying the war is right or wrong, the reaction to it is. Why such an outrage over the cost of the war over 6 years when we have spent 5 trillion on the bailout since May. When there is 3x that amount potentially at default in the credit market. The war is with wall street, they have done more damage in a shorter period of time than George Bush or the Iraq War, and appear completely unaccountable by the public or the press.
By the end of 2007 there were an estimated $45 trillion to $62.2
trillion worth of credit default swap contracts outstanding worldwide. 15.5 Trillion in the United States.
The annual US debt obligation runs around 1 trillion.
The total US Debt is totaled at 10 Trillion.
The Cost of the Iraq War is totaled at 600 Billion and relative cost.
The Current Cost of the Bailout is 5 Trillion.
Regarding the war. The enlistment in WWII seems to have been forgotten by most Americans already. Roughly 58% of Military aged men:
16 million is the normal figure of US men in the military over the
duration of World War II, and the US population was 131 million at the
time of the 1940 census, with roughly 28 million males between the age
of 15 and 40. source
for Iraq the enlistment numbers are harder to find and I just can not keep looking for an up to date source. The only number I have found is 160,000 in 2004, which predated the "surge".
160,000 vs 16 million can you really call both of them the same thing?
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