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Fighting Terror or Expanding U.S. Empire Over 350(US) billion dollars yearly finances the U.S. Global War On Terror (GWOT). Comment by Larry Ross, October 20, 2005
As the following report by the
Center For Defense Information shows, much of it is wasted. Some 12 billion
cannot be accounted for. As pointed out in other papers on this site,
the U.S. continues to create enemies in order to justify ever increasing
defence budgets. These in turn help make arms corporations very, very
wealthy. Naturally that assures continuing large campaign donations from
the mainly republican arms trade corporations to ensure Bush and other
Republican candidates and chosen Democrats get re-elected.
Important New CRS Report on War Spending http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=3179&from_page=../index.cfm from CDI,
October 13, 2005 From Sept. 11, 2001, to last week, the federal government has spent $357 billion on the “Global War on Terror.” These expenses include military operations, reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan and security at U.S. bases and embassies overseas. To date, $326 billion has been appropriated to the Department of Defense and $31 billion was appropriated to the Department of State and the Agency for International Development. Broken down a different way, $251 billion has been spent for fighting and reconstruction in Iraq; $82 billion was spent in Afghanistan. Average monthly spending in Iraq has increased 18 percent to $6 billion, and in Afghanistan spending has decreased 8 percent to $1 billion, compared to 2004. If the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan go relatively smoothly, the United States might spend another $570 billion between 2006 and 2010.
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