Looking for stats re: cost of war in Afghanistan

[kahleefornia]

I would like to see a direct comparison of how much the US deemed worthy of spending to bomb that country, vs how much we are sending to help with the quake (50 million).

Google is not being my friend on this - I can only find total costs for the "war on terror", always including Iraq. This, however, is 7 billion dollars a month.

7 billion.

Maybe I'm just a wacko liberal commie, but it seems to me that if we have that kind og change to throw around, we could have found a more peaceful, constructive way to spend it.

[acmejack]

1. It is difficult as they lump the funds together with Iraq

says $66 Billion as of August 29, 2005.

[kahleefornia]

2. Thank you. So that amounts to

7.5%.

We consider disaster aid to be worth 7.5% of what we consider "defending our own freedom" worth.

Nice neighbors, huh?