124 Missiles have been fired into Libya. 122 are from the USA @

[in_cog_ni_to]

$600,000-$1,000,000 EACH.

Do the math. Lets take the $1,000,000 for fun.... $122,000,000????? Seriously? IN ONE DAY THEY CAN BLOW $122,000,000 and not blink an eye at it? Yet, we have no money for our schools, infrastructure, teachers, homeless and hungry? Really? IN ONE DAY!

As per CNN news report.

[harun]

1. That doesn't look deficit neutral to me

[tammywammy]

6. They've already been purchased, this is using current inventory.

It will add to the deficit if they purchase more.

[aquart]

15. Yep.

Good to know it wasn't money for nothing.

[WatsonT]

16. Which they almost certainly will

Maybe we could have sold them to Britain, France, Norway, etc at cost since they are leading this and we're just a junior partner in this war.

[Warpy]

23. Well, to be fair, they're doing conventional bombing runs

against the lines of tanks and bases used to train new mercenaries. They're blowing up money, too.

Face it, missiles are one of the few things we still do best.

[tammywammy]

25. The UK has bought Tomahawks for the Royal Navy. n/t

[WatsonT]

29. Then why is it that nearly every cruise missle has been one of ours?

What's the point of selling all these weapons to the world when we still have to personally supply them at times like this?

[DJ13]

2. $122m?

Oh come on, thats only the bonuses for 15 Wall St executives, hardly worth talking about.

:sarcasm:

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. I know. Chump change. n/t

[MannyGoldstein]

3. But we're not a major player

The Frence and British are leading this. We're only handing out water bottles and energy bars.

[BeFree]

12. Thanks for the laugh, Manny

Can you believe this shit?

I thought we had moved past war as an answer and being sucked in like this.
We may be so far down the hole we never dig out.
Goodbye humans?

[Sonoman]

5. When development costs are factored in - $1.5M per unit.

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/11-10-2004-61475.asp

Today's unit cost (sans development costs) is more like $575K per unit.

Still one hell of a lot of our money.

Sonoman

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. Allied forces my ass.

Meanwhile Obama is charming them in Rio.

[Autumn]

8. So why should schools,

infrastructure, teachers, homeless and hungry people be our main priority? Besides we are taking a back seat, so they say.




Seriously. Doesn't that just piss you off? And they have the nerve to whine about the deficit.

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. Yes.

it makes my blood boil actually!

[Autumn]

10. I am so pissed. How long have we heard these

jerks whine about the deficit and how it's time for shared sacrifice. Shared sacrifice my ass.

[snappyturtle]

11. I think this constitutes abuse of the American taxpayer. nt

[Historic NY]

13. Excess inventory...

#Libya has 2nd largest air defense system in Middle East, 31 surface-to-air missile sites & large number of portable surface-to-air missiles
markhanis (Mark Hanis):#Libya has 2nd largest air defense system in Middle East, 31 surface-to-air missile sites & large number of portable surface-to-air missiles

A NFZ represents a major threat to the Allied aircraft engaged in enforcing it. Were not blowing up camels.

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. LOL....man, you guys have learned well from the GOP...How to SPIN

a story to suit your needs.

Excess inventory? Seriously? That's your excuse? Never mind it's $122,000,000 IN ONE DAY? It's mind-boggling that this is your reaction when we having homeless on the streets begging for a damn dollar so they can EAT.

[DainBramaged]

19. I tried today, they almost got mine locked down

this is a drop in the bucket, remember, there is no defense expense too great for America to sacrifice for.....


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x695299

[Historic NY]

20. Really you do know they are not all US Tomahawks.....

A barrage of 112 Tomahawk cruise missiles - some of them British - was also fired at Libya to knock out the dictator’s air defence systems at more than 20 coastal locations.

A Royal Navy Trafalgar-class submarine stationed in the Mediterranean took part in the co-ordinated assault, which also involved forces from the US, France, Italy and Canada under the operational control of US Africa Command.

The missiles targeted radar systems and ground-to-air missile sites around the cities of Tripoli and Misrata in what was described as “the first phase of a multi-phase operation”, clearing the way for allied planes to take control of the skies.

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/target_libya_raf_reveals_marham_jets_3_000_mile_mission_as_aircraft_prepare_to_deploy_to_italy_1_835355

[in_cog_ni_to]

26. That's what the military talking heads said. 124 missiles were fired and 122 were AMERICAN missiles.

I just repeated what he said.

[WatsonT]

14. Sweet!

So we spend money on this, and then it becomes part of the deficit, and somehow through trickle-down economics we all get jobs and everything is ok.

You just have to have faith, don't question the numbers.

[in_cog_ni_to]

18. That's their logic. I'm sure.

I'd laugh if this wasn't so freakin' sad.

[Ramulux]

21. But we have to save the poor Libyan people...

Dont you understand, it doesn't matter if we are too poor to afford it or that we have huge amounts of people starving to death in this country.

This is the "new liberalism" where we accept that it is Americas and the UN's responsibility to save all oppressed people on this planet. If you dont support an invasion of Libya you obviously WANT the Libyan people to die.

[TBF]

31. Yes! We must bomb the country so the people don't die. Wait ... nt

[progressoid]

22. And that's just the cost of the missiles.

That barely scratches the surface of the money pit that is our Military Industrial Complex.

[in_cog_ni_to]

27. Exactly! The warships, the soldiers, the cost of getting there

I'm sure the costs are astronomical already....in ONE DAY.

[Stinky The Clown]

24. Shhhhhh.

You're not supposed to oppose this bombing.

[in_cog_ni_to]

28. I know. I'm sure I've made many ignore lists throughout the day.

Such is life at DU.

[WatsonT]

30. Well duh, we're at war, stop your peacnik commie pinko traitorous nonsense and get on board

Let's bomb those brown bastards! O-rah!