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Originally Posted by tonybarry
... but the cost of banging up ISIL which Australia has just committed to, is quoted at around $500e6.
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The US Department of Defence spent over 750
billion dollars in Iraq on direct war-related costs between 2003 and 2010, not including the related costs of interest on borrowings to fund the war - and then there's the costs of all the other parties (including Australia).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financi...f_the_Iraq_War
Just imagine what that money could have done spent on
ANYTHING other than a war! E.g.: The Apollo program cost $20 billion in 1970s dollars, or around $150 billion today.
NASA's entire budget is currently about $18 billion per year, and is the smallest percentage of US GDP that it has been since 1960.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA