Oh, I'm sorry, let me clarify - I was talking about US dollars. I hope no one wasted any time contemplating the intrinsic sacred value of human life.
In US dollars each Tomahawk Cruise Missile costs $1,410,000.
This is slightly off topic, but I just want to point out that defense contractor Raytheon, the company that builds the Tomahawk and puts that 1.41 million dollar price tag on it, has been accused of the following crimes: illegally obtaining classified Air Force and (in a separate incident) Pentagon documents, misleading Congress regarding the success of the Patriot Missile during and after the 1991 Gulf War, inflating defense contracts for antimissile radar, misleading the Defense Department by overstating labor costs, attempting to bribe members of the Brazilian Government, spying on and stealing documents from another firm that Raytheon was bidding against, issuing false and misleading statements about revenues (which lead to a class action lawsuit), plagiarism, testing weapons on prisoners, and several lawsuits involving ground water contamination.
But I'm sure they're being honest with regards to the dollar value of the Tomahawk Missile.
Next question: How many of these $1,410,000 missiles has our government dropped on Libya this week?
At least 161 missiles. Shall we do the math?
I came up with $227,010,000. Wow. That's more than a QUARTER OF A BILLION DOLLARS! And that's just over the course of five or six days!
Seems like a lot of money, huh? But I'm glad we did it! The Libyan Government was assaulting protesters! It was awful! Just check out this horrific video:
Oops - Wrong video. My bad. Good thing Muammar Gaddafi didn't see that! He might have decided to impose a no-fly zone over Pittsburgh!
We're not really spending hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure that the citizens of Libya have the right to assemble, though, are we?
Yoo-hoo! British Petroleum! I'm writing my next post about you!
War is Hell unless you're a defense contractor, then War is Swell. Just ask Halliburton and the Cheney family after a eight years of no-bid contracts awarded by the Bush-Cheney White House.
ReplyDeleteI'm really curious as to how the no-bid contract came to be. Doesn't seem like a very good way to encourage good, old-fashioned American ingenuity OR a free market economy. Ah, well. At least we're only borrowing 40 cents on the dollar.
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