There is a heated discussion happening on this web page. Caution some nasty language there.
http://www.freespeechwisconsin.com/index.php/topic,2717.0.html
It first starts off asking if the war in Iraq was worth doing. But then it morphed into how the USA is leaving millions and millions of dollars worth of equipment there. Last estimate is 313 Million dollars in equipment The USA is leaving behind.
The argument says it is too costly to ship the stuff back.
While I am not a big overseas shipper. But I can not see how it could cost too much when you see the cost of the item being left behind because it costs too much to ship?
I mean load all this stuff on a giant container ship yes?
Like a Humvee, They cost $140,000 dollars, can anyone say honestly that it would cost too much to be worthwhile bringing this back?
How about a M-1 Tank.
Last pricetag, $6.1 Million dollars it cost.
Scrap metal value alone at todays prices it's worth almost $50,000 dollars at 700 a ton for scrap metal.
So the question I ask you big shipper folk. Using like one of those big container ships. and loaded it as full as possible with all these 6 million dollar tanks and 140 thousand dollar humvees. what would it cost to being them back? Instead of leaving them there for no doubt in the future our enemies to use against us.
anyone?
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