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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 07:06 PM
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BBC (Wednesday): Iraq war 'costlier than Vietnam'

From the BBC Online
Dated Wednesday August 31 17:01 GMT (10:01 am PDT)


Iraq war 'costlier than Vietnam'

The monthly cost to the US of the war in Iraq is now greater than the average monthly cost of the Vietnam War, a report by two anti-war groups says.

The report put costs in Iraq at $500m (£278m) a month more than in Vietnam, adjusted for inflation.

This makes Iraq the most expensive US war in the past 60 years, they say . . . .

The report by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF), called The Iraq Quagmire, calculates the cost of current military operations in Iraq at $5.6bn (£3.1m) every month.

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DELUSIONAL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 07:23 PM
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1. See!! Iraq war and Vietnam war CAN be compared!
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 07:24 PM
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2. Doubt if no-bid contracts proliferated during the Vietnam War
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