War Costs in Life & Money
Today I learned that Fullerton is the only city in orange county that is entirely serviced by an independent newspaper -FULLERTON OBSERVER but more importantly I learned- •California leads the nation with 3,972 soldiers wounded and 731 dead in wars since 2001
• 4,501 US soldiers killed in Iraq (DoD 5/14/16)
•2,381 US soldiers killed in Afghanistan (2/12/16) www.casualties.org
•Cost of war since 2001 is $1.688 trillion (Iraq $819.4 billion) (Afghanistan $736.5 billion) www.costofwar.com (5/14/16 Cost of military action against ISIL $9.5 billion Pentagon slush fund $119.5 billion www.nationalpriorities.com
•Every Hour US taxpayers are paying $8.36 million for costs of war since 2001
What could we be doing with this money instead?
