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The Cost of War

November 13, 2007 · Leave a Comment

No, not THAT cost of war.  The $$$$ cost of war.  And, just for fun, let’s throw in the hidden costs the Administration doesn’t like to talk about.  What do you get?

$1.5 Trillion

When writing about the monetary cost of the war in Iraq in recent months, typing out, “$500 billion,” always boggled the mind.  Who knew that that wasn’t the half of it…so to speak: “The economic costs to the United States of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan so far total approximately $1.5 trillion, according to a new study by congressional Democrats that estimates [...]

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