Happy Halliburton
March 13, 2006
*We learn that the cost of George W. Bush’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has now surpassed, in constant 2006 dollars, the cost of the Vietnam War at its height, when the US had 550,000 troops deployed there,” wries Eric Margolis in his Writer’s Notebook. “This means two things: first, the US military is too expensive to use for more than a few weeks; second, the war has become a financial black hole. Defense (should we call it `offensive’) spending is up 70% since Bush took office. Remember President Eisenhower’s warnings about the military-industrial complex?”
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