In the post following your response to my intial post, I stated I do not know the exact percentage and that I just took a quick guess. It should have ended there.
The point is...it is not even close. THAT WAS my original point. That the quick guess was ridiculous...it would be like me saying..."I am not sure how long my penis is...I've never actually measured it, but, I am going to take a quick guess and say it is 35 feet long."
How do you know it isn't even close? We had a lot of military assets in the ME during the 90s. Say it's 5% or 10% or 15% -- whatever -- how much is "enough" for you?
Two, within the context of my original statement, it's pretty obvious that "and its financing" applies to the 25%, not to the entire military budget; which, was no part of the discussion.
That sentence makes absolutely ZERO sense...you need to go back and reread it and come back with something better. YOur initial post talked about him "tying up a quarter of our military and it's financing" that is talking about tying up a quarter of the military and a quarter of the military's budget.... which is as crazy as my 35 foot long johnson
Nope. You read it wrong.
Again, I don't know what the actual percentage was, and I have so far been unable to find anything concerning it. Which, would mean you don't know what the actual percentage is either. If by chance you have found something to the contrary of that assumption, I would like to see it.
I am not going to take the time to do your research for you.... go look at the defense department budget.... look at all the billions spent on ship construction and new aircraft and all that training and all those bases all over the world and all those bases at home and all those soldiers sailors and marines in all those bases with all those tanks and artillery pieces and helicopters ...
I didn't ask you to do anything for me, did I?
and then imagine the detachments in the middle east... and the relative handful of ships that patrol the arabian sea and persian gulf and the squadron of airforce CAP aircraft that patrolled the no-fly zones.
Handful? Yeah, okay.
As I said before, 25% is not just A guess, it is a superbly ridiculous guess that indicates that you have zero knowledge about the incredible complexity of the defense department or its budget. I would be surprised if the actual number were greater than 2%.
And I think it was significantly larger than 2%.
Within the context of my argument, it is pretty clear that we spent a significant amount of money and military manpower babysitting Saddam Hussein, and I consider that one of the justifications for invading iraq.
And I really find the entire premise that some percentage of prior defense spending becomes a justification for flushing a half a trillion MORE dollars down the shitter and suffering 25THOUSAND dead and wounded....
to be barbaric and idiotic.
So just how long do think we should have spent our time and money and tied up our military personnel, REGARDLESS PERCENTAGE. babysitting a genocidal maniac?
Since you don't think anything justified the invasion of Iraq, fine. We disagree.
no shit
So, the point to carrying on about this WHAT, exactly?
why...to kick your ass in this steel cage match that YOU set up, of course.