Libya attacks spark fight over cost

Source: CNNMoney

To date, the United States has spent some $225 million firing Tomahawk missiles, according to CNN estimates based on U.S. Navy figures.

The cost could reach up to $800 million to fully establish the no-fly zone and another $100 million a week to maintain it going forward, said Zack Cooper, a senior analyst for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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Defense spending, in inflation adjusted terms, is higher than at any time since the end of World War II, and the United States now spends six times as much as China, the country with the next biggest budget.
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The costs are mounting. The price tag to replace the fighter jet that went down Tuesday with a top model could run between $100 million and $150 million, Cooper said. And fuel prices for each jet runs $10,000 an hour.

Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/22/news/economy/libya_cost/

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End all the wars tomorrow and put the money into something positive and constructive, like Social Security or Renewable Energy.

What a crazy idea.

CNN must not have gotten the memo.

And the missiles that are being used are from the 2006 stockpile.
They were made and paid for a long time ago.
Regarding the jet fuel - planes are flown all the time in practice exercises, etc.
The expenses of the military is not going to ever go down regardless if we are at war or not.
They will always find projects to spend money on.

"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes … known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare" James Madison

could use my tax $

about the costs of two significant wars in iraq and Afghanistan? Seemed like the sky was the limit.

It cost us that much to build them, but now that they're gone we don't have to replace them.