From AOL/ HUFFINGTON POST:
…According to a March 29, 2011 Congressional Research Service report, Congress has approved a total of $1.283 trillion for “military operations, base security, reconstruction, foreign aid, embassy costs, and veterans’ health care for the three operations initiated since the 9/11 attacks.” Those three operations include Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) Afghanistan; Operation Noble Eagle (ONE), providing enhanced security at military bases; and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF).
Broken down individually, the government has spent $806 billion for Iraq, $444 billion for Afghanistan, $29 billion for enhanced security and $6 billion on “unallocated” items. The vast majority of all the money appropriated has gone to the Department of Defense, and of that money more and more is being spent on Operation & Maintenance (O&M) funding, which went from $42 billion in FY2004 to $79 billion in FY2008. Only $67 billion (or 5 percent) went to the State Department or USAID. Only $8 billion (or 1 percent) went to veterans’ care, via the Department of Veterans Affairs….
Bin Laden, of course, was found in neither Iraq nor Afghanistan but in neighboring Pakistan. And he was killed not by army personnel but by a covert Navy SEALS unit aided by CIA intelligence. Budgets for those agencies and entities were not covered in the CRS report. However, the study did look at money spent on counter-insurgency funds for the government of Pakistan. Since 9/11 the United States has appropriated money for that purpose just once: a $400 million expenditure in FY2008…
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EDITOR: As a political activist, Bin Laden’s was a genius. As a human being, we consider him the devil incarnate. We suspect, but have no way of knowing, that the “Arab Spring” might have occurred years earlier were it no for 9/11. If so, Bin Laden may have actually delayed the changes he sought. We will be able to better judge a hundred years from now. So keep visiting!
It really doesn’t matter what evidence they release, these “doubter” bozos will find reasons to say it’s a “fake” or it’s “photo-shopped”. You can count on that. This nonsense will take and on and on, just like the birth certificate inability. Then the bozos will move on to their next conspiracy theory. Apparently, it’s their life blood.
ANOTHER RESPONSE:For the U. S. to be proven wrong or incorrect about claims that he’s dead would be an international embarassment that would undercut our credibility for decades to come.
So, you want absolute proof? Try this. Wait a month. If Bin Laden doesn’t appear in tape or video to be able to embarass the U. S., then he’s dead and you normally takes that to the bank.
ANOTHER RESPONSE:
What proof do we need?….. Usama Bin Laden was killed in a firefight and IMMEDIATELY buried at sea in addition to Barrack Hussein Obama Jr’s original birth certificate. All that’s left is made for the fat lady to sing and the numerous grand standing, photo opts, fund raisers, that our humble commander in chief will have to attend on a moments notice.