Afghanistan is costing 2 billion per week.

[lonestarnot]

That's what Keith said last night.

[ensho]

1. a fact to make a person furious and nauseous

nt

[lonestarnot]

3. And that does not include costs for prosthetics.

[ensho]

17. kick

nt

[Romulox]

2. Bin Laden is dead. What is the current mission??? nt

[nichomachus]

12. To make sure the drugs flow freely

Under US occupation, the Afghan drug trade is at an all time high. The Powers that Be like it that way. Drug money is very important to them.

How can the New York Times publish on its front page that the U.S. government is in Afghanistan to ensure that drugs reach Washington? No one dares to publish that drugs are the lubricant of the global economy. Let's see, we agree that NATO holds 97% of Afghanistan, right? It turns out that this year the country has had the greatest harvest of its drug history. How can anyone relate that? This is not a coincidence.

Rough translation of an interview with Daniel Estulin in the Spanish media today. A very interesting interview, by the way.

Here's a google translate version

http://tinyurl.com/3kx6ncy

[Autumn]

4. Let's cut that deficit and we just won't worry about

that 2 billion per week. Our so called leaders are making me sick.

[lonestarnot]

7. Whick deficit? The one going into the pockets of the top 1%?

[Autumn]

13. That one too. Mainly the deficit the pukes and Obama are so

worried about,the one we have to cut needed programs to bring it down. I'm thinking the cost of their wars are part of it.

[tekisui]

5. Some $140 billion this year, so far.

[lonestarnot]

9. So all those "protectors" of America are running up the deficit.

Sounds like a gansta business to me!

[Terry in Austin]

6. The high cost of empire

Makes the enterprise self-limiting.

Goes back to Emperor Augustus, who first noticed. You'd think we'd have learned by now, but no...

[Romulox]

8. But remember: there is NOT A PENNY that can be cut from the Federal budget.

Not a thin cent!

[theaocp]

10. So what?

There're social programs that Democrats need to agree to cut with Republicans' blessing.

[xchrom]

11. I don't want to hear not ONE politician talk about debts, deficits, &

Shared sacrifice. Not one.

[G_j]

14. K&R

[bemildred]

15. We could be bailing out Greece with that money, and several other small countries. nt

[socialist_n_TN]

16. Didn't I see a headline about $18 BILLION of that money

that they didn't even know where it went? It's bad enough that we've got a war that NO one wants, costing over $100 BILLION per year, and apparently a significient % of the money is wasted or stolen.

Yet the DoD is off limits for any cuts under deficit reduction. Instead we've got to cut the deficit on the backs of the working class and poor.

Your US imperialism at work!

Edited to clarify and change something that I missed.

[bemildred]

19. That was the money pallets for Iraq, I think.

NY Fed Won't Say How Much Money Went to Iraq

The New York Fed is refusing to tell investigators how many billions of dollars it shipped to Iraq during the early days of the US invasion there, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction told CNBC Tuesday.

The Fed's lack of disclosure is making it difficult for the inspector general to follow the paper trail of billions of dollars that went missing in the chaotic rush to finance the Iraq occupation, and to determine how much of that money was stolen.

The New York Fed will not reveal details, the inspector general said, because the money initially came from an account at the Fed that was held on behalf of the people of Iraq and financed by cash from the Oil-for-Food program. Without authorization from the account holder, the Iraqi government itself, the inspector general's office was told it can't receive information about the account.

The problem is that critics of the Iraqi government believe highly placed officials there are among the people who may have made off with the money in the first place.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/43487056

[amborin]

18. K&R