Well lets try this example: The total percentage of the American gross national product spent on Defense (including such follow-ons as the VA health system, military pensions etc., is about 6 percent, while Entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare etc comprise approximately 45 percent).

If you take take 6 percent of a year (365 days) you get slightly under 22 days. That meant our economy is so strong that we paid for our entire military in 22 days. (And by the way, the supplemental is expected to be paid for in another ten days).

Look at another cost: As a disabled vet, I have cost the US Government well over a half of a million dollars in rehab, pension and medical costs (including my recent $80,000 heart attack). The great thing about a $500 thousand dollar missile is that it has a real cheap retirement plan.

And folks, since those 1,000 Tomahawks we expect to use in Iraq were due to be phased out and scheduled to be fired as training missiles, some of these costs will eventually be recovered as training funds...