A) The U.S. is currently spending around $6 billion a month on Iraq.
Source?
Hey, sonny, you get no freebies.
B) To date, expenditures have totaled an estimated $320 billion, although a supplemental bill for more is now working its way through Congress.
Source? You made the claim, not me.
Now, three different projections of estimated final costs:
Study #1) --- A study by the Congressional Budget Office forecast an additional $225 billion in direct spending over the next 10 years, [note: above and beyond the $320 Billion already spent...] assuming troop levels fall to 50,000 in a few years.
Source?
Study #2) --- "Taken together, it is quite possible that the United States will ultimately spend more on U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan than it did on the Korean War ($455 billion) or the Vietnam War ($650 billion)," according to a report by Steven Kosiak, a budget analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments..
Source?
BTW, the Korean War is technically not over. There never was a peace treaty signed. And there a re STILL bullets crossing that DMZ.
NOW: Are you going to HONESTLY claim that Iraq has cost/will cost as much as a year that started 56 years ago and is still going? Really?
But let's take a look at a bit of that war:
Korean War (1950-1953) Total Servicemenbers (Worldwide)
5,720,000
Battle Deaths 33,686
Other Deaths (In Theater) 2,830
Other Deaths in Service (Non-Theater) 17,730
Non-mortal Woundings
103,284
Living Veterans 3,913,749*
So we've had about 2,400 US deaths in Iraq and about 17,000 woundings and the cost is the same as 34,000 dead ans 103,000 woundings? ARE YOU SERIOUS???????
>>>>>> (SPECIAL NOTE: breaking out the expenditures for 'rebuilding' in just Iraq --- as has been recently reported in numerous media --- and the US is *just now* reaching the level of spending that we allocated to Germany after WW II (in real terms) --- about $49 Billion in current dollars. That is ALREADY *twice* what was spent on rebuilding in Japan after WW II.)<<<<<<<<<
B***s**t. Prove it. Japan and Germany were leveled at the end of WW II. The only way THAT could happen is the US did a dribble that went into that bucket and the rest went into Marshall Plan (remember that) or something similiar.
Study #3) --- A third study by Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, estimated the total cost for the Iraq/Afghanistan War by the time it is all over to be in the range of $750 billion to $1.2 trillion. A big part of that, he says, is the continuing cost of health-care for the more than 17,000 soldiers wounded in the Iraq conflict. (And, of course, interest upon the sovereign debt issued to finance war operations....)
Which again shows a properly biased source determined to "prove" a point can prove anything. And you've proven NOTHING. You presented nothing but a few numbers with no justification.
Wanna try again? See if you can come up with something other than wild claims this time. |
