War costs $12 billion a month

By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent

The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the "burn" rate of its earliest years, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and co-author Linda J. Bilmes report in a new book.

Beyond 2008, working with "best-case" and "realistic-moderate" scenarios, they project the Iraq and Afghan wars, including long-term U.S. military occupations of those countries, will cost the U.S. budget between $1.7 trillion and $2.7 trillion — or more — by 2017.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080310/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_war_costs

At least we're not wasting money trying to find Bin Laden or fix our economy back home.

 

It's the oil, stupid.

 

I thought the mission was already accomplished?

And by the way, how are we paying for this?

 

By the oil we were going to steal — I mean produce – in the Iraqi oil fields.

 

We're doing less with more!

 

Not that it matters, but the article referenced was the AP link in my original post.

 

Why do you hate America, DemoChristian?

 

It's not that I hate America, it's just that I love terrorists and I think it's a shame what we did to Sadaam. And it's really tragic that "democracy is on the march." At least those thousands of people haven't died in vain.

 

Yeah I figured.

Go back to Russia!

 

Move along... nothing to see here...