Comments on: </war> http://avanttrash.com/2008/03/07/63/ Live from Hollywood: A little bit of blood, a little bit of glitter. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:27:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: shancam http://avanttrash.com/2008/03/07/63/comment-page-1/#comment-421 shancam Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:52:49 +0000 http://avanttrash.com/2008/03/07/63/#comment-421 In a news story today NPR reported that we are spending roughly 12 billion dollars in Iraq alone each month. This number is NOT our total defense budget...just Iraq. I wonder what the economic economic damage done to Iraq would equal. Millions of Iraqis have been left without jobs, and hundreds of thousands of professionals, managers and other middle-class citizens have fled the country. In the book "The Three Trillion Dollar War," the authors report both wars will have cost the U.S. budget $845 billion in 2007 dollars by next Sept. 30, end of fiscal year 2008, assuming Congress fully funds Bush administration requests. That counts not just military operations, but embassy costs, reconstruction and other war-related expenses. That total far surpasses the $670 billion in 2007 dollars the Congressional Research Service says was the U.S. price tag for the 12-year Vietnam War. In a news story today NPR reported that we are spending roughly 12 billion dollars in Iraq alone each month. This number is NOT our total defense budget…just Iraq.

I wonder what the economic economic damage done to Iraq would equal. Millions of Iraqis have been left without jobs, and hundreds of thousands of professionals, managers and other middle-class citizens have fled the country.

In the book “The Three Trillion Dollar War,” the authors report both wars will have cost the U.S. budget $845 billion in 2007 dollars by next Sept. 30, end of fiscal year 2008, assuming Congress fully funds Bush administration requests. That counts not just military operations, but embassy costs, reconstruction and other war-related expenses.

That total far surpasses the $670 billion in 2007 dollars the Congressional Research Service says was the U.S. price tag for the 12-year Vietnam War.

]]> By: MaT http://avanttrash.com/2008/03/07/63/comment-page-1/#comment-169 MaT Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:52:35 +0000 http://avanttrash.com/2008/03/07/63/#comment-169 technically, we don't HAVE that 3 trillion dollars. That's the sad thing. The war is classified as an "emergency expenditure" and thus, isn't even calculated into the federal budget each year. All that money shouldn't even exist in the first place. China's paying for our war, and bankrupting our future. Fuck George Bush. technically, we don’t HAVE that 3 trillion dollars. That’s the sad thing. The war is classified as an “emergency expenditure” and thus, isn’t even calculated into the federal budget each year. All that money shouldn’t even exist in the first place.

China’s paying for our war, and bankrupting our future.

Fuck George Bush.

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