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To: Rt Hon Michael Fallon, Secretary of State for Defence
HOW MUCH DO OUR WARS COST?
Please make public the actual financial cost - to the nearest £million - of our military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan during the past 15 years and to include the current activity against IS.
This should include costs of equipment, munitions, medical care and re-hab for injured/maimed servicemen & women and, of course, the payout to bereaved relatives which cannot, in anyway shape or form, compensate for the loss of a loved one.
This should include costs of equipment, munitions, medical care and re-hab for injured/maimed servicemen & women and, of course, the payout to bereaved relatives which cannot, in anyway shape or form, compensate for the loss of a loved one.
Why is this important?
Until just a few years ago we, as a nation, were beholden to the USA under the terms and conditions of the Lend-Lease agreement during World War 2. We have paid our debt to the USA in full, both in cash - with massive interest - and in human lives.
We no longer have to join in their wars and we should be a peaceful island nation which just gets on with our global neighbours and trades peacefully with them.....rather than being a belligerent nation which spends a disproportionate amount of its GDP on its military and getting involved in warfare that we can't afford.
Wouldn't our nation be so much better if we used this money to make life in the UK better and healthier for the people who live here?
Warfare is paid for from the taxes we pay - we choose that our tax is spent on positive outcomes for the people of the UK, instead of bombing distant countries just because they have an issue with the USA.
We no longer have to join in their wars and we should be a peaceful island nation which just gets on with our global neighbours and trades peacefully with them.....rather than being a belligerent nation which spends a disproportionate amount of its GDP on its military and getting involved in warfare that we can't afford.
Wouldn't our nation be so much better if we used this money to make life in the UK better and healthier for the people who live here?
Warfare is paid for from the taxes we pay - we choose that our tax is spent on positive outcomes for the people of the UK, instead of bombing distant countries just because they have an issue with the USA.
