Re: Harper, honoured in N.Y. as statesman of the year, aims to snub UN
Why don't you compare the two and get back to us...do you even know if the payroll costs for example are that different between the two? The Reuters report doesn't mention that as an additional cost that the government estimate failed to include.
- Tonington ... Nice work as usual. You have managed to a/ divert discussion of another achievement by our prime minister whom you do not like with an irrelevant report and b/ erroneously credit the report to Reuters when all Reuters did was to release the report done by some anti-war college professors with a left wing agenda on the Reuters news service without endorsing it in the least.
- In actual fact, and your political and the porfessors' politcal agendas aside, the amounts of money requested by the Bush and the Obama administrations to fight the Iraq and the Afghanistan wars was $1.3 trillion EXACTLY AS I SAID IT WAS now increased in 2012 to $1.4 trillion. This, EXACTLY AS I SAID IT WAS, is less than one quarter of the size of the debt that has been accumulated under your hero Obama. The additional expenditures to wage these two wars were expenditures that would have been required regardless of the two wars, spending required to maintain a large and modern and costly military establishment that must be paid, equipped, housed, trained, fed, etc. regardless of whether or not they are in Kabul or Kansas and whether they are at war or at peace.
- Perhaps you should play with someone your own size rather than with former armed forces officers like myself, if you can find anyone that small. LOL