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Pentagon: Iraq Military Operations Costing U.S. More Than $7.5 Million A Day–Reports

Pentagon: Iraq Military Operations Costing U.S. More Than $7.5 Million A Day–Reports New York[RR] Washington,DC–Emerging reports from Washington,DC says that Iraq daily operations cost over 7.5million, Republic Reporters has learned. ‘But the daily costs have been ramping up recently. According to Zeke J Miller, told reporters that, “The U.S. air and advisory campaign against the […]

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Pentagon: Iraq Military Operations Costing U.S. More Than $7.5 Million A Day–Reports

New York[RR] Washington,DC–Emerging reports from Washington,DC says that Iraq daily operations cost over 7.5million, Republic Reporters has learned. ‘But the daily costs have been ramping up recently.

According to Zeke J Miller, told reporters that, “The U.S. air and advisory campaign against the militants in Iraq is costing American taxpayers more than $7.5 million per day, the Pentagon said Friday.

“The daily cost of the effort, which has included airstrikes and sending American military advisors to assist the Iraqi military on the ground, has hit $7.5 million on average, according to Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby. The daily cost in recent weeks has been higher.

“So as you might imagine, it didn’t start out at $7.5 million per day. It’s been—as our [operational tempo] and as our activities have intensified, so too has the cost,” Kirby told reporters, offering the government’s first official assessment of the cost of the operation.

“So as you might imagine, it didn’t start out at $7.5 million per day. It’s been—as our [operational tempo] and as our activities have intensified, so too has the cost,” Kirby told reporters, offering the government’s first official assessment of the cost of the operation.

Other sources say, Iraq war could cost even above 7.5Million per day’, it said.

However, “U.S. ground advisors were ordered into Iraq in June, while U.S. Central Command began airstrikes against the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), as well as humanitarian drops to assist encircled Iraqi minorities in early August. CENTCOM announced Friday that it had conducted four airstrikes in the vicinity of the critical Mosul Dam on Friday, bringing the total number of strikes since August 8 to 110.

Kirby said, “the Pentagon continues to believe it will be able to fund the operations through the current fiscal year ending Sept. 30 using its existing resources.

“The dollar figure comes as the Pentagon is drawing up plans to expand the military campaign against ISIS in Iraq and potentially into Syria following the killing of American journalist James Foley more than a week ago. President Barack Obama said Thursday that no decision on strikes in Syria is imminent, but said he may have to ask Congress to provide additional funding for the campaign against ISIS for the next fiscal year.

Daniel Ellsberg, quoting Wikileaks said, there are multiple cover-ups in Washington, DC. In 2010, he said, “The Iraq war logs, published this weekend by Wikileaks, could be even more significant.

“As with Vietnam, we have again seen evidence of a massive cover-up over a number of years by the American authorities. The logs reveal the human consequences of the continuing Iraq war, which have been concealed from the western public for too long: the countless instances of torture; the killing of hundreds of civilians at roadside checkpoints..”, he said.

“Now we know that the Pentagon, which claimed in the early years of the Iraq invasion either that it didn’t count casualties or that it had no evidence of them, was indeed keeping meticulous records all along. It has reports of 66,000 civilian casualties – 15,000 of which were completely unknown to Iraq Body Count, the only public attempt to log the war’s victims. That means 15,000 deaths that never made any news report – five times the number murdered on 9/11. It certainly would be news if they were American or British deaths. That’s 15,000 families who’ve suffered huge anguish and who may potentially have been motivated to seek revenge against American or allied troops. For the Pentagon to lie or try to hide this kind of carnage can only be self-defeating.

“Perhaps that the victims are “only” Iraqis shows the kind of mindset among the occupying commanders that kept this bloody war going for so long. Perhaps they failed to realise that the coalition’s deadly activities have been such a powerful recruitment weapon for the resistance, both in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Washington usually, say, leaking Pentagon papers is danger to national security.
“The US administration has learned from that episode. It has repeated the line – as it did with the leaked Afghan war papers in July – that the leaks are a danger to national security and put US troops’ lives at risk. (Though the Pentagon has now had to acknowledge that it doesn’t have any evidence of a single life being harmed in Afghanistan since July, despite the fact they’ve been searching desperately for it.)

“At the same time, however, the Pentagon has been trying to downplay the revelations in order to lessen the public reaction. It says these reports are nothing new, and that they’ve already been the subject of public discussion. Well, maybe they’re nothing new to Iraqis, who have lived with the consequences of torture and checkpoint killings for seven years. And of course they’re nothing new to the Pentagon – it has been reporting these cases internally for years. But over that period, each time the American media has reported claims of indiscriminate killings, it has always reported either that the US military deny the allegations or that they are “investigating”. As former British ambassador Craig Murray once said, these revelations don’t risk the lives of our soldiers, but risk merely the reputations of the politicians and bureaucrats who send them to their deaths.
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