Hagel told members of the House of Representatives in Congress it would be in the “10’s of millions…”

Each cruise Missile costs $1.5 million.   In Libya, we fired 221; 110 in the opening salvo.  Alone, that totals to $331 million.

B-2 Bombers’ fuel costs $60,000 per hour… They travel from Missouri 18 hours there, and 18 hours back… so 36 hours times $60,000 is $2.16 million for each bomber’s fuel on each run.

Weekly costs for a carrier strike force… $25 million in normal operations.  In combat mode, the cost rise to $40 million due to extensive flying, and fuel for the planes.

When reporters brought up these discrepancies to Pentagon officials, all declined to comment. Pentagon spokesman George Little told a briefing on Thursday….”This is in the national security interests of the United States,” Little said. “When something is that important, we’ll find a way to pay for it.”

Word leaked from the MId-East is we have…

Exhibit A: Saudis have put ”on the table” their offer to pay for the entire US assault on Syria.

Why would they do that?

Hedge funds are betting if war in Syria occurs,  oil jumps from $109 to $125 a barrel.  At the pump that translates from today’s pump cost of $3.45 per gallon up to $3.95 a gallon of 87 octane…  At 9.8 million barrels a day, Saudi’s will make $156 million extra …per day….  If oil jumps to top line, $150 a barrel, our pump costs soar to $4.74 a gallon and the Saudi’s pocket an extra $401.8 million a day. War is very profitable for them and the Gulf States…

Oil, at $150 a day, has China very worried.  The global economy may take quite a hit on the chin.

As an indicator of how close the price of oil is tied to this,   as reports of opposition to Obama attacking Syria grow,  and the attack looks less likely, the price of oil futures are coming down…