Why Does The Iraq War Cost So Much?

Question

I've read this is the costliest war we've ever been in. I'm sure the dollar amount says as much but what is causing it? This war is probably one of the smallest scale wars we've ever faught.

Is it a simple matter of inflation?
Is it the way we are fighting it?
Are we lumping reconstruction costs with military spending?
Do we lump normal anual military with Iraq war costs?

The numbers just don't add up here and something seems fishy.

Are the numbers being cooked? If so, by whome?

People get off the Bush bash bandwagon for a minute and actually take a look at the numbers... does anyone know where this money is actually being spent? How much has the military budget grown since the war started? When people say the Iraq war is costing 4 billion a day, do they subtract out the average peacetime military costs?

People get off the Bush bash bandwagon for a minute and actually take a look at the numbers... does anyone know where this money is actually being spent? How much has the military budget grown since the war started? When people say the Iraq war is costing 4 billion a day, do they subtract out the average peacetime military costs?

Answer 1

Because unlike all of the rest of the wars we fought, we're paying for this war with our charge cards, meaning we're not paying for it but letting a future generation pay. This way the only "sacrifices" we are making to keep bush's folly going is the sacrifices of all those lives and limbs of our fighting men & women. Back in WWII we had make REAL sacrifices (besides the live & limbs of our troops) everyday by rationing sugar, rubber, meat, etc. We planted victory gardens and bought war bonds.

Answer 2

Ok first off you got to feed the troop. Food Costs. Plus contractors make the meals. got to pay for the contractors and contractors do a lot of other things there as well (Transportation, Laundry stuff like that) In wars in the past we had no contractors. No we have civilian contractors to take most of the burden of the soldiers. Plus then you have all the civilians here say the body armor isn't good enough. or the Vehicles don't have enough armor. So to satisfy the little cry babies who aren't over there but they just want something to cry about we have to produce new types of body armor and reinforce vehicles during the middle of a war. Which costs money. But most of the money probably goes towards paying those civilian contractors. Best answer......

Answer 3

Because it is a war for plunder. No-bid Halliburton contracts for billions, Bush supporter weapons manufacturers and defense contractors are helping themselves to the US Treasury, they all have been given an open checkbook for supplying the BushCo war machine. No wonder they want to "stay the course" as they are raking in 3 billion per week off the backs of the US taxpayers and the borrowed money. At this rate the country will have to file chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Answer 4

What went incorrect? each thing. WW II inspired the yankee financial gadget, simply by fact the U.S. had long previous in the time of the worst melancholy in background and had nowhere to go yet up. if so the conflict DID stimulate the financial gadget, even nonetheless many stuff have been nevertheless rationed. What Bush did is he took the grand surplus Clinton left him and stole it to visit a ineffective conflict in Iraq. while issues did no longer go the way he thought, he grow to be cornered and consequently had to spend billions we did no longer have, which resulted interior the financial meltdown, the bursting of the housing bubble and the crumple at Wall highway, sending this united states and it truly is human beings right into a nostril dive and boy did we crash. hundreds of hundreds lost their jobs, their residences, their retirement and each thing else considerable to them. Obama had no different selection yet to proceed to pump funds into the financial gadget with the hopes that making an investment earnings usa and the yankee human beings, might bring about getting us out of the disaster Bush placed us in. At this element, if we invade Iran interior the form we are in now, we are going to little doubt go into the 2nd super melancholy. Obama is conscious that and except we truly could desire to invade Iran simply by fact our existence is threatened, he won't do it.

Answer 5

Advanced weaponry, communications and electronic equipment, transportation, payroll, food, medical costs, other supplies, reconstruction, etc ALL costs money... a LOT of money....

You have to look at the actual costs of things PLUS all that it really takes to run a military operation from all aspects

Answer 6

I believe the spiraling cost is due to gross misspending on military contracts & added inflation. Raw materials are also increasing exponentally.
Like Vietnam though this war is being run more by beaucracy than military leadership, & we all know how well governments can manage money.

Answer 7

Because we have to give no bid pay whatever they ask for contracts to the companies that have Republican ties. Companies that gave big donation to the R party and now they want the money back with interest. Companies like Haliburtin which are charging the Army $45.00 for a six pack of coke.

Answer 8

check out the documentary Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers by Robert Greenwald. that should answer a bunch of questions for you about where our money is going. there is also plenty of info here http://iraqforsale.org/facts.php

Answer 9

What do you expect from a goverment that spends $200.00 on a toliet? I suspect it comes from guaranteeing work to certain American companies (Boeing, Halliburton etc.) via Labor Unions. And the American worker ain't cheap. I guess we could have all our planes, arsenal and what not built in Mexico, India or China via child labor to cut costs.

Answer 10

Who knows?
There are so many lies out there by people who WANT us to lose the war, that it's sometimes hard to find the truth.

I'm more worried about what the Democrats are going to do to us working people now they have taken over Congress.
That's what we working people are worrying about first.