War costs $12 billion a month

[DemoChristian]

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.

 

[thereligiouswrong]

It's the oil, stupid.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I thought the mission was already accomplished?

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

 

[Football_Bat]

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.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

This is the article referenced.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702846.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

We're doing less with more!

 

[DemoChristian]

This is the article referenced.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702846.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

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

 

[BYH]

Why do you hate America, DemoChristian?

 

[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.

 

[BYH]

Yeah I figured.

Go back to Russia!

 

[Flying Headbutt]

This is the article referenced.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702846.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

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

Actually, I threw up a link to an article written by the two mentioned in your article. It's all connected though.

 

[Trouser_Buddah]

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

 

[jgmacg]

If we don't bankrupt ourselves over there, we'd have to bankrupt ourselves over here!

 

[EStreetJoe]

Would it be possible to save a few million by using UPS or FedEx to ship the supplies over instead of using our current methods?

 

[bostonbred]

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

By borrowing money from other countries, such as Japan and China.

 

[Trouser_Buddah]

I don't have the money to buy a big screen tv... so I just didn't put it in my budget this year and bought it anyway... Everything will work out ok for me, right?

Right?

 

[Chi City 81]

We're at war with fiscal responsibility. We've always been at war with fiscal responsibility.

 

[alleyallen]

Fight smarter, not harder. That's the key to success, boys.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

The good news is that we have a Club card so that December will be free...

 

[zeke12]

We're at war with fiscal responsibility. We've always been at war with fiscal responsibility.

Welcome back, Doc.

We missed you.