Quote Originally Posted by manfrommaine View Post
what double standard? I am not asking you to prove your 25% guesstimate.

Yeah you did. Repeatedly.

I am not so sadistic as to demand you spend hours using search engines looking for something that doesn't exist.

It is silly on its face. Anyone who knows what an aircraft carrier costs or a B-1 bomber or the annual upkeep of a slew of military facilities across the nation knows that 25% is silly. Off the top of my head, I'd imagine that the money they spent during those years to just operate and maintain and staff the pentagon alone was more than the operations in the gulf between the wars.... but I sure as hell ain't gonna go research Pentagon OPTAR figures to prove that....
Uh huh.