Cost of US wars since 9/11? At least $3.7 trillion, study finds

[cali]

224,000 people have died directly from warfare and 7.8 million people have been displaced



NEW YORK — When President Barack Obama cited cost as a reason to bring troops home from Afghanistan, he referred to a $1 trillion price tag for America's wars.


Staggering as it is, that figure grossly underestimates the total cost of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the U.S. Treasury and ignores more imposing costs yet to come, according to a study released Wednesday.

The final bill will reach at least $3.7 trillion and could be as high as $4.4 trillion, according to the research project "Costs of War" by Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.

In the 10 years since U.S. troops went into Afghanistan to root out the al-Qaida leaders behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, spending on the conflicts totaled $2.3 trillion to $2.7 trillion.

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[Cali_Democrat]

1. Bin Laden won

assuming he was even behind the 9/11 attacks.

[neverforget]

2. and all of it borrowed

[slay]

3. Yep

fucking war profiteers - and making US pay for it! why do people stand for this? :puke:

[Gregorian]

4. With a capital T which stands for tool which rhymes with fool

which is what we are for funding that war.

Suckers. Dick Cheney may have no heart, but he sure has a bad ass bank account. And so do his friends.

Dead humans. No big deal. It's all in a day's work.

[Martin Eden]

5. Made in USA

After we lost most of our manufacturing jobs, we had to find something to export -- WAR.

[Dawson Leery]

6. The single largest contributor to the debt increase since 2001.

All of that $3.7 trillion was borrowed and handed off to defense contractors.

[WinkyDink]

7. Wonder what % was/is graft and theft?