As we pay our tax bills, it seems an appropriate time to urge everyone to Rethink Afghanistan, a war that currently costs over $2 billion a month but hasn’t made us any safer. Everyone has a friend or relative who just lost a job. Do we really want to spend over $1 trillion on another war? Everyone knows someone who has lost their home. Do we really want spend our tax dollars on a war that could last a decade or more? The Obama administration has taken some smart steps to counter this economic crisis with its budget request. Do we really want to see that effort wasted by expanding military demands?
Watch Pulitzer Prize-winning authors and journalists, military and foreign policy experts, leading economists, and many more explain just how much the war in Afghanistan will cost us over how many years.
We must urge Congress to raise key questions about this war at once. As FireDogLake blogger Siun recently wrote, “Once again we are planning a surge with no exit plan and a continued lack of concern for the most basic protection of the civilians in the land we claim to liberate.”
http://rethinkafghanistan.com
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800 billion dollars …
800 billion dollars!!!!wtf give me the money and give the money to the young America so we can bring ourselves out of this economic collapse!!! wtf are we doing in AFGHANISTAN!!!
I love the war …
I love the war profiteering part. Obama spends
more in one year than bush in 8 and suddenly the war is too expensive? it’s all too expensive all of it.
social security, end it and buy out the balance.
End all govt. retirement pensions (the only ones afforded for in the constitution is for the military)
this will in itself cause the Govt to shrink.
End all frivolous unnecessary Govt jobs and
pay the remaining at rates commensurate with private sector, but without retirement.
That will fix it.
wants it to stop… …
wants it to stop…but they don’t want to stop it because the false war on terror is making the usa citizens and not only usa citizens but entire western civiliazation making to give up there rights..like your patriot act etc it is all about global controle…and the only 2 countries that wasnt under full controle of Elite lobbieyist yet was afghanistan&iraq..sorry for any spelling mistakes i dont live in use or england i speak many languages thank God but spelling is not as good as my vocal
glad to see you …
every day more and more people realize this i still can’t understand how americans don’t see that 9/11 was planned and worked out by usa elite lobieyist…as a muslim myself and most of the muslims in the world we feel very sorry for all the americans killed in 9/11 but we feel even sadder and more angryier about the millions of muslims killed in iraq&afghanistan under the pretext of the false war on terror…this “terrorisme” will stop when the usa
glad to see you have it all figured out
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE …
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2009 FOR WHAT? FOR MORE WAR- MORE KILLING..? MORE TERRORS?
STILL BLAME BUSH ONE YEAR LATER?
How much more money of American tax paid, to continues for AFHANISTAN WAR?? Will Nobel Peace Prize Fix the problem???