Honestly, whoever still thinks spending $10 billion a month in Iraq is worth it, let alone a good idea, is a fucking idiot. Period.
All told, Congress has appropriated $610 billion in war-related money since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror assaults, roughly the same as the war in Vietnam. Iraq alone has cost $450 billion.
The figures come from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, which provides research and analysis to lawmakers.
For the 2007 budget year, CRS says, the $166 billion appropriated to the Pentagon represents a 40 percent increase over 2006.
The Vietnam War, after accounting for inflation, cost taxpayers $650 billion, according to separate CRS estimates.
The $12 billion a month “burn rate” includes $10 billion for Iraq and almost $2 billion for Afghanistan, plus other minor costs. That’s higher than Pentagon estimates earlier this year of $10 billion a month for both operations. Two years ago, the average monthly cost was about $8 billion.
[Update] Newsweek poll out yesterday:
41% still think Saddam was involved with 9/11.
20% think we found WMD’s in Iraq.
Mission Accomplished!
why are we there again? i forget?
41% still think Saddam was involved with 9/11.
20% think we found WMD’s in Iraq.
Never before have we had so much access to information.
Never before have we been so missinformed.
Or so it seems.
After taking us there and now leaving us there indefinitely with ineffective surge after surge, Bush has lived up to be the biggest pussy of all as he prepares to skate from office, leaving the quagmire for others.
I think this is a point that doesn’t get repeated enough, warmjet. Bush is terrified of failure. Being resolute when you’re wrong doesn’t translate into strength, it means your scared to face up to your actions. He’s been bailed out of screw ups all his life, and he’s again trying to pass his failures off to the next president.
how dare you insult the Texas Rangers. how, dare you.