Bush thinks that the war is helping the US economy.

For off its based off one estimate, it doesn't say over what period of time but I suspect its over a span of at least 20-25 years. Also they say there is no accounting for money it doesn't mean that they money vanished it could mean that they paid for an item 20 years ago, used it and have no receipt of the money used to pay for it. Do you have a receipt of every transaction every completed 20 years ago.

 

Your hero Donald Rumsfeld was called before a Congressional committee to explain this the day before 9/11.

Look it up on YouTube. It's surprising you didn't know about it, and yet not totally surprising that you would immediately begin trying to make up excuses for it.

 

I am convinced that soniq is standing in for GTech mate, or maybe he is GTech.

It's a mystery.

 

I am perplexed with the OP from AGS

Did you make a mistake by using the word 'thinks' in the Thread Title

Or can you please tell me the exact date when BUSH started thinking

 

You mean bush actually thought ever

 

Its not everyday a government loses $2.3 trillion, or cannot find $300 million in the balance sheet gone without proof. It sounds like a large sum of money to me. These people aren't buying pencils that they can't find receipts. The equipment has gotta be more substantial.

 

And unfortunately, a lot of the military budget we DO have records for includes $20,000 toilets and $9,000 hammers. Government spending = waste and I hope someday the "fiscal conservatives" realize this applies to the military, too...

 

I don't know how you can loose $2.3 trillion dollars if your only give around $450 billion a year.

Two, so my thinking is that its over a period of years during the Clinton years what the pentagon received no where near $450 Billion that the pentagon received this year so you assume an average budget of 300 billion dollar a year and that's being generous since the defense budget in 1997 was $247 billion so what that would mean is that pentagon would have to receive no money for a period of about 10 years to get 2.3 trillion dollars which is unrealistic that for 8- 10 years straight the pentagon didn't see any money, so one would assume that a certain percentage of the money is wasted and unaccounted for so for the sake of the argument you assume 10% is wasted the time period you are looking at is about roughly 100 years before it equals to 2.3 trillion dollars.

 

I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt mate.

 

Thanks for clarifying that finite point

 

True fiscal conservatives are anti-war, because they realize that war is the health of the state.

Believe me, most of today's Republicans are no more conservative than Barrack Obama.