Do you realize that the Bush administration promised that the war would only cost us about one and a half billion dollars and the Iraqi oil would pay for the whole thing? That's what they told us. That was just another lie. The cost could top TWO TRILLION DOLLARS if it goes on till 2010.
Bush even fired the guy who said the war would cost 100 billion dollars. If only he was right!
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....All this despite Paul Wolfowitz's promise that the war would be over quickly, the troops home soon, and that the reconstruction would be self-funding, thanks to the sale of Iraqi oil supplies. Back in 2003 the President's economic advisor, Larry Lindsay, predicted that the Iraq adventure would cost more than $100 billion. He was fired, in part, for saying it, yet he greatly underestimated the cost.....
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"Six Questions for Gordon Adams on the Real Cost of the “War on Terror”" by Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine)
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"Even taking a conservative approach, we have been surprised at how large they are," the study said, referring to total war costs. "We can state, with some degree of confidence, that they exceed a trillion dollars."
The higher $2 trillion amount takes a 'moderate' approach. Both figures are based on the projection that US troops will remain in Iraq until 2010, with steadily decreasing numbers each year. The economists also used government data from past wars, and included such costs as the rise in the price of oil, a larger US deficit and greater global insecurity caused by the war, the loss to the economy from injured veterans who cannot contribute as productively as they would have done if not injured, and the increased costs of recruiting to replenish a military drained by repeated tours of duty in Iraq. These are items which are almost never included by the US government when determining the cost of the war.
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Report: Iraq war costs could top $2 trillion | csmonitor.com
Traveler here says we should just hand over the tax dollars, no questions asked. After being lied to, do you hand the liar all your money Traveler? This is another 400 billion dollars we are talking about, for a war Bush said would cost a little over one billion, and fired the guy who said it would cost 100 billion.
Why do you believe these liars?
Everything about this war has been a lie. It's time to end it. Enough is enough. It's breaking the back of our military and putting our country in massive debt.