Bush wars to cost 40 times higher than original estimates 8K per

[katty]

more: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Your_bill_for_US_wars_8000_1024.html

Bush wars to cost 40 times higher than original estimates; $8,000 per man, woman child in USNick Juliano

Published: Wednesday October 24, 2007


New estimates show Iraq, Afghanistan will cost US $2.4 trillion; White House refuses to provide estimate
The United States is spending about $8,000 per man, woman and child in the country to pursue wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to new estimates that show the wars will cost about $2.4 trillion over the next decade.

More than one-fourth of the money spent in Iraq and Afghanistan -- $705 billion -- will go to paying interest on the wars' costs, which are being funded with borrowed dollars, according to an estimate to be released Wednesday by the Congressional Budget Office. Iraq accounts for about 80 percent of the costs with a $1.9 trillion tab, including $564 million in interest, a House budget committee staff director told USA Today, which reported the numbers Wednesday morning.

"The number is so big, it boggles the mind," Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) told the newspaper.

[Turbineguy]

1. But then again,

Bush is so bad it boggles the mind.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. That Yale MBA really came in handy this time, huh?

[denverbill]

3. Implement pay-go on the war, and it will end in two months.

Republicans would go bat-shit crazy if their taxes went up a couple hundred dollars a month to pay for the war. That's the only way we will ever get out of Iraq.

[katty]

4. Sounds like a great plan

[MasonJar]

5. The MBA is from Harvard; Bush was the gentleman "C" at Yale for

undergraduate. Thank God, he wasn't at Princeton. How totally embarrassing for those two fine universities. But on the other hand it is their own fault; why did they pass him?

[TheBaldyMan]

6. He got a lega-C grade.

Fortunate sons don't get their qualifications on merit.

HRH Prince Charles got a "1st class honours" from Trinity College, Cambridge and he was/is dumb as a rock.