Bangkoktraveler Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 he USA planned on buying 980 tomahawk missles in 2012 at a price tag of $1.4 million a piece but being we used at least 162 tomahawks in this excursion, it looks like the price tag for this 'war' is going to cost us a pretty penny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Nah...didn't shoot it down. After it landed, they hit it at an air base. But I guess they all look the same in the box score. HH Maybe it was one of the planes they sold Ghadaffi six months ago with a built in self destruct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 he USA planned on buying 980 tomahawk missles in 2012 at a price tag of $1.4 million a piece but being we used at least 162 tomahawks in this excursion, it looks like the price tag for this 'war' is going to cost us a pretty penny. As previously stated the money confiscated from Libya should cover all expences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 he USA planned on buying 980 tomahawk missles in 2012 at a price tag of $1.4 million a piece but being we used at least 162 tomahawks in this excursion' date=' it looks like the price tag for this 'war' is going to cost us a pretty penny. [/quote'] As previously stated the money confiscated from Libya should cover all expences. That argument was used for Iraq. How much are we in the hole for that now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 I don't have the actual numbers. It was obviously a success though because oil was $15 a barrel under Saddam and now look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCorinthian Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Nope. http://www.ioga.com/Special/crudeoil_Hist.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Yep. Look at your own chart. Saddam offered to put oil on the market at the '99 price of $15 in an effort to break the sanctions. OPEC said no. Basra was effectively shut down and tankers had to load in Kuwait and Saud paying well over $20. There was a steady increase until the actual invasion in 2003 and prices have been going up ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCorinthian Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Offering is not the same as doing. Also, $15 then is not $15 now. (But it is not near $100 now either I must concede.) Look at 2002, oil avg $22.81 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Nevertheless Saddam was willing to sell oil for $15 a barrel. Of course he wasn't allowed to do it though quite a lot did go through Turkey, and even Jordan, at that price (and some a lot lower). Tanker trucks were lined up in their thousands around Zakho. You really have to look at the oil price month by month. In 2002 with Iraq off the market the Saudis agreed to pump more. The next big spike was the invasion in 2003 after which it settled in a range for a year or two. Again because of Saudi production. I'm sure you know why it was so volatile in 2008 and 2009 but I'll give you my version if you like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Looks like the Turks are going to put Sarkozy back in his box.... Command of military operations in Libya will be transferred from the US to NATO within a day or two, Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey's foreign minister, has announced. Turkey had helped to implement a naval blockade of Libya, but had earlier expressed concern about the alliance taking over operational command of the UN-backed no-fly zone from the US. Speaking to journalists on Thursday, Davutoglu said: "Compromise has been reached in principle in a very short time. "The operation will be handed over to NATO completely." Davutoglu said this would happen as soon as possible, within one or two days. He said agreement had been reached in a teleconference with his counterparts from the US, France and Britain. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/03/2011324185612655172.html Could be the end of little Nick's election hopes. http://www.todayszaman.com/columnist-239080-sarkozys-show-turkeys-concern.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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