U.S. Cost of Iraq War & Rebuilding Could Top $600 Billion

[greatauntoftriplets]

The Bush regime is mortgaging this country's future. And this is occurring at a time of deep tax cuts for the rich, and when the military and its private contractors are nickel-and-diming the troops in Iraq. According to Paul Krugman in today's New York Times, many soldiers are limited to two 1.5-liter bottles of water per day -- in 120 degree heat.

August 11, 2003

War costs could reach $600 billion

By Alan Fram
Associated Press

The U.S. bill for rebuilding Iraq and maintaining security there is widely expected to exceed the war’s price tag, but the Bush administration is offering only hazy details about the multibillion-dollar totals.
Private analysts have estimated that the cost of U.S. military and nation-building operations in Iraq could reach $600 billion.

But the closest the administration has come to estimating America’s postwar burden was when L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator of occupied Iraq, said last month that “getting the country up and running again” could cost $100 billion and take three years.

He estimated that repairing Iraq’s electrical grid alone will cost $13 billion and getting the water system in shape will require an additional $16 billion.

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2121650.php

[teryang]

1. most of that money will go to

...American contractors. You know the ones who are "nickel diming" our troops with two bottles of water.

[izzie]

2. Interesting I have paid for or helped pay for.....

WW2, Korea,Nam, and then the no wars like countries Reagon, Clinton, and the Bushs have made war on. Does it ever stop?Cold war went on for 50 years. My whole life it has been one war after another war and we have been in all, but for the start in China with Japan in the mid-30's. Sad....

[izzie]

3. By the way that China thing was Japan trying to get oil in Asia.

Guess which countries were not for that?