{"id":93,"date":"2004-11-19T13:09:59","date_gmt":"2004-11-19T13:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=93"},"modified":"2004-11-19T13:09:59","modified_gmt":"2004-11-19T13:09:59","slug":"the-price-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"The price of war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, even though it wasn&#8217;t planned for in the budget, the war in Iraq currently costs us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/NewsContent\/0,13319,FL_cost_111804,00.html?ESRC=eb.nl\">$5.8 billion a month<\/a>, according to our generals. I guess that&#8217;s part of the reason why we&#8217;ve had to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2004\/11\/19\/MNGSB9UAM21.DTL\">cut our contribution to the AIDS fund<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd even while we&#8217;re pumping all that money into the military, the generals say that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-troops18nov18,0,2602297.story?coll=la-home-world\">our military is under a terrible strain<\/a>, both financially and in terms of personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, even though it wasn&#8217;t planned for in the budget, the war in Iraq currently costs us $5.8 billion a month, according to our generals. I guess that&#8217;s part of the reason why we&#8217;ve had to cut our contribution to the AIDS fund. And even while we&#8217;re pumping all that money into the military, the generals say that our military is under a terrible strain, both financially and in terms of personnel.<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=93\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-econ"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-1v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}