the exact figures, doesn't mean that, my statements are incorrect. You, yourself, don't know the figures, and all that you can put out is the numbers spun out by the left-wing media in order to demonize the Bush administration. In effect, you're helping to spread the lies of the democrats and the left-wing media.
The fact remains, and nobody can disagree with it, that, the total amount that the democrats and the media like to quote as the total costs of the wars, is incorrect and way off. Like even you would have to admit, the troops and maintenance of equipment and purchase of new equipment, are expenses that would occur anyway, deployed or not. Deployed troops and equipment will, of course, cost more, but, the cost of going to war is the additional costs associated with said deployment, and not the total costs which democrats and the media and even you, like to lie about. That I don't have the exact figures is immaterial, because, it's doubtful that, even the military officials, or the government, has those exact figures. The best that we on the outside can come up with, is guesstimates, and the figures put out by democrats and the liberal media, are outright lies.
BTW, a lot of those other expenses associated with deployment of troops, such as medical expenses, are not that much higher than if those troops hadn't been deployed. For example, military personnel still die in times of peace, or non-deployment, and many of them still suffer injuries, and in fact, the number of troops killed in those 2 wars, is not that much higher than the number of people that still die while serving away from war, and the statistics also point to injuries and accidents still not being that much higher than when the troops are in "non-deployed" status. So, even there, the statistics put out by the democrats and the liberal media, are exaggerations. Did you know that, a person who dies as a result of an accident while deployed, is listed as a casualty of war, but, if the same accident occurred while on a military exercise, it wouldn't be a casualty of war? There are many such cases listed as casualties of the wars, but the fact is that, they weren't as a result of combat. The point being that, accidents at home are still part of the expenses, and they are the same expenses while troops are deployed.
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