US war costs since September 11 exceed $500bn

[Barrett808]

US war costs since September 11 exceed $500bn
Peter Walker
Thursday September 28, 2006
Guardian Unlimited

The Iraq war is currently costing US taxpayers around $2bn (£1.07bn) a week, as the military replaces damaged equipment and tries to establish more permanent bases, reports in US newspapers said today.

A report by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service projected that the war would cost $110bn for the fiscal year 2007, the Houston Chronicle said.

This would be a 20% rise on last year and almost double the monetary cost of the first year of the war, a report in the Boston Globe said.

According to the Globe, the report estimated that once Congress approved two pending bills on military spending, total war costs since the September 11 2001 attacks would have exceeded $500bn, of which $379bn had been spent on Iraq, $97bn in Afghanistan and $26bn on improving the security of US military bases elsewhere.

The costs had increased despite a levelling off of US troop numbers in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to the report, the extra money was being used in part because of a greater intensity of attacks on American forces, the Boston Globe said.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1883259,00.html?gusrc=ticker-103704

[LSparkle]

1. But ... Andy Natsios (sp?) said it was only gonna cost ...

What a bunch of fucking losers the Rethugs are. NEVER let them get away with calling themselves "fiscally conservative" again ...

[Josh]

10. I remember that - $1.7 billion dollars

That's it. A few weeks. $1.7 billion. And the country would finance its own reconstruction.

[fat dad]

15. Minimum Three Trillion $$

Figure lifetime disability payments, health care, pensions, occupation, and, oh yeah, we ain't done yet, now are we?

Three Trillion Dollars is enough to install solar panels/geothermal heating and cooling on every home in America and still have enough to lend American auto makers the money to switch over to building nothing but electric hybrids.

But, as former Bush energy czar joked in 2001 when addressing OPEC and Big Oil "the last thing we want is to encourage is solar powered socialism".

[Auggie]

2. The horror... imagine how much $500 bn could buy

in alternative fuel technology. Not to mention health care, school lunches, education, etc.

[savemefromdumbya]

6. insured 190 million children for one year!

[whistle]

3. In reality, we are locked into spending thrice that level if the war

...in Iraq was to end tomorrow. So, look at this as $1.5 trillion and climbing. Why climbing? Because Iran War I is just over the horizon. This is Imperialism at its most exploited and wasteful best! :sarcasm: Or worst, depending on which end of the funnel you sit :wtf:

[Chico Man]

8. Construction of the Great Wall to commence immediately!

Imperialism at it's best is right.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. 10 years of HC for every American down the shitter.

"Waah! We can't afford it!"

Fuckers.

[savemefromdumbya]

5. look at costofwar.com website (check how much in YOUR state!

http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

(costofwar.com)

[bliss_eternal]

7. The nation needs to write up a bill for junior...

that how much he owes us, as a country. :eyes:

[sweetheart]

9. Don't forget to add in the other stupid war....

..costs:
http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm

[Frazzled Educator]

11. But, I'm a War President and I'm the Decider

And I decide what goes because I make the decision thingies here in this White Home. I'm the Decider. Someone pass me a banana and a bottle of scotch. . .I need to swing from the trees.

Weeeeeee. . .cocaine is good. Oo, oo, ah, ah! oo, oo, ah, ah!!!

G-d, I hate this man!

[vanboggie]

12. But, but Iraqi OIL is going to pay the bill

Oh wait, that keeps disappearing. Oh Mr. Cheney.....

[The Wizard]

13. There's a monster on the loose

Our cities have turned into jungles
And corruption is stranglin' the land
The police force is watching the people
And the people just can't understand
We don't know how to mind our own business
'Cause the whole world's got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
'Cause there's a monster on the loose
It's got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watching

America where are you now?

("Monster", Steppenwolf, John Kay

If I could have said it better I would have.

[genie_weenie]

14. It's all about the Captains of Industry and Government

keep being blinded by the Bread and Circuses meanwhile those Great Men of industry have continued to work hand-in-hand with Government to control and exploit you...

[suegeo]

16. Iraq had nothing to do with the Sept 11 Reichstag fire

Also the United States Government isn't government so much as it is organized crime, and the media is a part of the organized crime.

War? What war? This is organized crime.

That boot stomping on my neck is making me surly. And if I'm surly, I can only imagine how the Iraqis and any other people the Junta has bombed feel.