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Below is an article from 2014 recounting the ridiculous cost of the previous war WE WERE LIED TO for the fake reasons of getting into it (WMDs my ass).
We could have had universal healthcare for all... but making death is apparently more profitable for the deciders.
THE STAGGERING COST OF THE LAST DECADE'S US WAR IN IRAQ — IN NUMBERS:
189,000: Direct war deaths, which doesn't include the hundreds of thousands more that died due to war-related hardships.
4,488: U.S. service personnel killed directly.
32,223: Troops injured (not including PTSD).
134,000: Civilians killed directly.
655,000: Persons who have died in Iraq since the invasion that would not have died if the invasion had not occurred.
150: Reporters killed.
2.8 million: Persons who remain either internally displaced or have fled the country.
$1.7 trillion: Amount in war expenses spent by the U.S. Treasury Department as through Fiscal Year 2013.
$5,000: Amount spent per second.
$350,000: Cost to deploy one American military member.
$490 billion: Amount in war benefits owed to war veterans.
$7 trillion: Projected interest payments due by 2053 (because the war was paid for with borrowed money).
$20 billion: Amount paid to KBR, contractor responsible for equipment and services.
$3 billion: Amount of KBR payments Pentagon auditors considered "questionable."
$60 billion: Amount paid for reconstruction, (which was ruled largely a waste due to corruption and shoddy work.)
$4 billion: Amount owed to the U.S. by Iraq before the invasion.
1.6 million: Gallons of oil used by U.S. forces each day in Iraq (at $127.68 a barrel).
$12 billion: Cost per month of the war by 2008.
$7 billion: Amount owed to Iraq by the U.S. after the war (mostly due to fraud).
$20 billion: Annual air conditioning cost.
Missing: $546 million in spare parts; 190,000 guns, including 110,000 AK-47s.
40 percent: Increase in Iraqi oil production.
$5 billion: Revenue from Iraqi oil in 2003.
$85 billion: Revenue from Iraqi oil in 2011.
$150 billion: Amount oil companies are expected to invest in oil development over the next decade.
$75 billion: Approximate amount expected to go to American subcontracting companies, largest of all Halliburton.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-iraq-war-by-numbers-2014-6
Trump administration's whole-government AI plans leaked on GitHub
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/trump_admin_leak_government_ai_plans/
flying over the dirty ol’ wedge #iykyk


end of the day glory somewhere near Sayulita…
https://blossom.primal.net/87875b62910f516509a9cfb99594b548dc50d216ebab6a3cd4c1c4fa9c2522d5.mov
memento mori


Watching the USA descend into a politically divisive banana republic is downright comical.
escape plan B activate.
Gm #coffeechain


