What's the war actually costing us... financially ?

Question

http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

but does that take into account medical costs, personal costs, resource costs,..?

what has this war in Iraq really cost the American people?

actually Stickmongoose.. that's wrong
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/10/20737/582

we've killed more Iraqi civilians just being there than Sadam di in a 10th of the time?

Answer 1

By the time the Vietnam war ended in 1975, it had become America's longest war, shadowed the legacies of four presidents, killed 58,000 Americans along with many thousands more Vietnamese, and cost the U.S. more than $660 billion in today's dollars.

By the time the bill for World War II passed the $600-billion mark, in mid-1943, the United States had driven German forces out of North Africa, devastated the Japanese fleet in the Battle of Midway, and launched the vast offensives that would liberate Europe and the South Pacific.



The Iraq war is far smaller and narrower than those conflicts, and it has not extended beyond the tenure of a single president. But its price tag is beginning to reach historic proportions, and the budgetary "burn rate" for Iraq may be greater than in some periods in past wars.

If U.S. involvement continues on the current scale, the funding for the Iraq war — combined with the conflict in Afghanistan and other foreign fronts in the war on terrorism — is projected to surpass this country's Vietnam spending next year.
Starting with the anti-terrorism appropriation enacted a week after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Kosiak figures the United States had spent $400 billion fighting terrorism through fiscal 2006, which ended Sept. 30.

For fiscal 2007, Congress has so far approved $70 billion. The president is expected to ask Congress for $100 billion more.

Even if the fighting stopped soon, which few expect, the bills would continue to accumulate as the Pentagon pushed to restore what the war had cost in troops and material.

Answer 2

besides the actual shown reality that I percentage a tremendous variety of your opinion, it continues to be considered a subjective one. us of a has had to take the lion's percentage of the legal responsibility and fee for UN operations, and collectively - takes the lion's percentage of the anger, abuse, hatred and blame for plenty of what the UN does. even as the UN began getting thinking non-allied peace protecting missions, each little thing went down hill. They were meant to type a commonplace alliance... and they grew to change into into international cop and soup kitchen for countries that could want to serve the international more effective powerful in the adventure that they basically died off. So I understand your difficulty, yet absolutely - if the U. S. pulled out of the UN, it would want to reason more effective issues than it would want to remedy.

Answer 3

all i know is that this year the US government had to increase the national debt cap from 7 trillion to 9 trillion to compensate for the costs of the iraq war

Answer 4

Oh, crap, I thought war was cheap as free. But can you seriously put a value on the hundreds of thousands of civilians that have been put to death in Iraq in recent years? How about the lives that could potentially be saved if we can stabilize this area? How can you even complain about tax money when it is being spent in an effort to save lives?

Answer 5

I heard $1.2 trillion with a t, followed by 9 zeroes.

Answer 6

It will cost us our country if it continues.

Just wait for the Iran war if you wantto see cost!!!

Answer 7

it's costing too much.. End This useless war.It's not good for anything but making the world hate america more and more.

Answer 8

financially the land which war has done already causes barren land which cannot be used to grow crop

Answer 9

300 million a day, unfathomable to imagine, especially when our economy sucks and thousands of Americans are losing their jobs every day at the hands of BUSH&CO......

Answer 10

wait till your kids get the bill.