Bottle of Blog: It Ain't Vietnam--Vietnam Was Cheap

WASHINGTON - The House cleared the way Thursday for a $453 billion defense spending bill that funnels $29 billion in hurricane aid to the Gulf Coast and $50 billion more for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan…

The $50 billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is to carry the Pentagon until Congress acts on another emergency war supplemental next year, which lawmakers expect to be from $80 billion to $100 billion…

It is estimated that the Pentagon is spending about $6 billion a month on the Iraq war effort.

That's great. I'm super happy that Congress is fully funding our military. Though, I'm just wondering when someone is going to finally ask:

Why the fuck is our military so goddammed expensive?