According to CBO numbers in its Budget and Economic Outlook published this month, the cost of Operation Iraqi Freedom was $709 billion for military and related activities, including training of Iraqi forces and diplomatic operations. The projected cost of the stimulus, which passed in February 2009, and is expected to have a shelf life of two years, was $862 billion.
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Good point, Bernardz. I'd take it even farther though, because OIF & New Dawn are probably more stimulative than the official Stimulus. We dropped the ball on winning oil contracts in Iraq, but the number of good salaried jobs for contractors, the defense sector, etc, certainly outnumbers whatever fake green jobs Pres. Obama promised through his stimulus.
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I'm still trying to find out where all the stimulus money went.
Sharif El-Gamal the 'brains' behind the Ground Zero Mosque is due in court on Thursday Oct 27. He will be answering a complaint that he has not fixed the 400 or so violations on his property at 1835 Amsterdam Ave.
And yet the Ground Zero mosque has been hosting regular prayers and the occasional art installation, unfinished though it is. How did he manage that?
He did not appear at a previously scheduled court appearance in September.
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Heh. I guess building regulations and OSHA can be beneficial at times. Looks like they'll have to declare jihad on both before they can continue with their Jihad on the West.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
