In a 2003 White House presss meeting GW Bush's Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was questioned about the cost of the proposed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"$55 billion."
When asked how he had conjured up that number and he explained that sum was for three months.
$20 billion per month or twice as much as the federal government pays for Food Stamps, but after 9/11 this country was in the mood for revenge no matter how much or whom. There were no Afghanis or Iraqis on the planes of 9/11. Not even as passengers. Nineteen of the hijackers were Saudis. None of them pilots. The USA did not attack the Oil Kingdom and the Eternal War has cost about $20 trillion without making anywhere safer.
As much as I hated Donald Rumsfeld, I had to admire his balls for saying, "$55 Billion."
For the most part the White House press corp accepted the figure without too many questions and America has been impoverished by this rush to judgment. No universal health care, high-speed trains, free education, or even improvements in the infrastructure. The only people benefitting from this War are the rich and the dictators we support around the world like the Saudis, USSR, and Qatar. Donald Trump was in awe of the Oil Kings' wealth. Our wealth was wasted on war. Lots of wars all over the globe
One more thing the war has cost about $23 trillion so far with no end in slight.
And that is a known unknown.
What is known is that the world was ruined by this $55 billion.
And remember peace costs nothing.
And also no one I have met has answered a simple question.
Why were we attacked on 9/11?
If it was, because they hate us, then why?
They don't like hot dogs.
ps Donald Rumsfeld is dead. He knows the unknowns now.
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