Bush wars cost us $8,000 each
Here’s a new estimate on total cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistian:
The United States is spending about $8,000 per man, woman and child in the country to pursue wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to new estimates that show the wars will cost about $2.4 trillion over the next decade.
More than one-fourth of the money spent in Iraq and Afghanistan — $705 billion — will go to paying interest on the wars’ costs, which are being funded with borrowed dollars, according to an estimate to be released Wednesday by the Congressional Budget Office. Iraq accounts for about 80 percent of the costs with a $1.9 trillion tab, including $564 million in interest, a House budget committee staff director told USA Today, which reported the numbers Wednesday morning.
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hmm… think i’d like my money back
Are you kidding? What a steal! Its the Wal Mart of wars.
Do you have any idea how much it would cost to fight the Islamofascists here?
Let me see, $8000 per family members for a family of 5. That would be about $40,000. Hmmm… Sure would buy a lot of health insurance. Yet Bush has the gull to veto the recent SCHIP legislation.
Apparently, all he cares about is making his insurance- and military-industrial complex friends wealthy.
Yesterday the State Department announced they “lost” 1.2 billion dollars that was sent to Iraq for police/military training of Iraqis. The last time this happened it was surmised that the folks we were bringing democracy and the American way of life to were using the money to buy weapons to attack our troops.
Nice.