Afghanistan Deployment Bumper Sticker

The cost has been widely reported, and range depending upon the calculation made. The million dollar estimates includes a wide range of important factors, including transportation costs, the need to build facilities to handle an influx of personnel, and whether troops deployed are primarily active duty or activated reservists. (The latter lead to additional personnel costs, as they are not regularly paid a full-time salary.) <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/04/news/economy/war_costs_lawrence_korb/index.htm">CNN Money</a> <br><br>The idea that it only costs the military $9,600 to send and support a soldier to Afghanistan is ludicrous. This sticker is meant to wake people up to the outrageous fiscal cost to these insane wars that are expediting the destruction of America's financial future. (Not to mention the destruction of any prospect of funding sustainable veteran support programs when these soldiers come home.)<br><br>The Pentagon itself estimates the cost of the war in Afghanistan at a current rate of $6.7 billion per month and $117 billion for fiscal year 2011. So it doesn't even take an incredible amount of math skill to do the calculation. <br><br> Arguments for or against the Afghanistan War are debatable. The fact that a brutal economic cost is being exacted on this and future generations because of this war isn't.