Iran war costs reach $29 billion. This does NOT include higher prices on gasoline, food, airfare, etc.

Photo above - Stevie Wonder would like to have a word with us . . .

“Congress questions Pentagon spending”. Has there ever been a LESS scary title for a senate hearing? A “bipartisan” congress is becoming annoyed at the Iran war, which costs hundreds of millions a day. But not annoyed enough to assert its war powers oversight authority. (see link below)

When congressional hearings are held, instead of supreme court lawsuits being filed, my first impulse is usually that I am in the audience of political theater. Okay, everyone is against war – all wars. And against extremist Muslim terrorism. And Iranian nukes. And higher oil prices. Is the plan here to hold enough hearings, and distract voters, so that every politician in the capitol gets re-elected this year?

For about 5 minutes I personally WAS distracted. By the promise of a full release of UFO files. Then I realized it was just more BS. No pictures of debris, no dead bodies – not even the ones Nixon showed comedian Jackie Gleason and Elvis in 1973. They were allegedly being kept in some underground DC warehouse straight out of Indiana Jones. No photos of anything new that appears capable of exceeding the speed of light. Just interviews with guys who never took pictures. I turned my attention back to the financial apocalypse we are all experiencing.

If congress was serious about the Iran War – and its reputation – there would be lawsuits filed for violations of the War Powers act. Ambitious politicians would be flying to London, Paris, Rome and Tokyo for photo-op consultations with other heads of state, and then give press conferences in front of historic backdrops. That’s not happening.

In the meantime, commuters spend $6 billion a week in higher gas prices than before the war. If you do the math, that means we’ve spent more on regular, high test, and diesel than the entire war to date. Unless the Pentagon is lying to us about the war’s true cost. It’s hard to believe we could have destroyed Iran 3 times over (per white house and secretary of war Pete Hegseth’s claims) and spent so little.

There’s no obvious exit ramp here. America did not “decapitate” the Iranian regime – the revolutionary guards fight on. America did not destroy Iran’s conventional missile program - dozens are still launched every day. America did not destroy the tons of enriched uranium waiting to be turned into nuclear weapons. America did not take control of the strait of Hormuz, or decimate the bases housing the revolutionary guards who killed 40,000 unarmed protestors.

The Pentagon hasn't done nothin’, and neither has congress.

I’m just sayin’ . . .



Pentagon faces bipartisan backlash as Iran war costs hit $29B

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pentagon-faces-bipartisan-backlash-as-iran-war-costs-hit-29b/ss-AA23fX8N?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a06ef27e21c4c029679c175fb06202d&ei=172#image=10