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economic crisis in Europe and the U.S. spend millions of dollars attacking Libya

Nicolas Sarkozy with Barack Obama

In economic crisis, both the U.S. and Great Britain, France and Spain began on Saturday a military invasion of Libya and is of growing global rejection.

unleashed bombings involving civilian deaths although the Pentagon denies it, and an increasingly clear objective of getting the oil price is that North African nation.

But the deployment of imperialist forces is also beginning to move the gears of the "business of war", but internally the countries leading the attack go through serious economic and social difficulties.

With unemployment rates rarely seen in history, as the case of United States (more than 9%) and Spain (20%), and endorsing budgets and cuts in social spending to alleviate the deficit, the Western powers did not stop the problems Structural and sparked a war of aggression that involves using millions of dollars.

Both the FY 2012 budget submitted by the United States President Barack Obama, as announced by the UK Minister of Economy, George Osborne, for the same period, including reductions in sectors such as education and health, and tax increase.

For the U.S. government, one of the few budget items that dramatically increased is related to defense, which amounts to 671,000 million dollars, but the Pentagon still requires U.S. $ 708,300 million, where 160 million are for for the invasions in Iraq and Afghanistan

In the British case wages will suffer a decline for two years, will freeze the social benefits for children and expected reductions in jobs in the public sector.

National Journal magazine estimated that on the first day of attacks against Libya, the U.S. spent more than $ 100 million and that the operation could exceed 1,000 million.

The publication explained that the U.S. ships fired on the first day a total of 112 long-range Tomahawk missiles, the cost per unit ranges between one million and 1.5 million dollars.

Meanwhile, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments calculated that the "initial phase" of the invasion, the Imperial forces could be spending between 400 million and 800 million dollars.

National Journal said that the cost of monitoring the no-fly zone would be between 30 million and 100 million dollars a week.

If the attacks are maintained for a long period, the Pentagon may request additional funds to the U.S. Congress, beyond your budget year.

Meanwhile, the BBC noted that each missile launched by the British cost $ 700,000, while the output of the Tornado fighter jet is around $ 40,000.

If the statements of U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates are true about the military attack on Libya did not have a deadline, spending will begin to erode the already low budgets, but will be a new impetus to the military -industrial still billing for its "good service" in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Leandro Albani / AVN