Report: Wars costing $12 billion a month (AP)

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Report: Wars costing $12 billion a month

By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer
41 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The boost in troop levels in Iraq has
increased the cost of war there and in Afghanistan to
$12 billion a month, and the total for Iraq alone is
nearing a half-trillion dollars, congressional analysts say.

All told, Congress has appropriated $610 billion in war-
related money since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror assaults,
roughly the same as the war in Vietnam. Iraq alone has
cost $450 billion.

The figures come from the nonpartisan Congressional
Research Service, which provides research and analysis
to lawmakers.

For the 2007 budget year, CRS says, the $166 billion
appropriated to the Pentagon represents a 40 percent
increase over 2006.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070709/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq_costs

[BOSSHOG]

1. And the trash who call themselves "christian" and "conservative"

fret over health care costs for immigrants while enjoying their cheap salads.

[stellanoir]

2. "but we're making progress"

countless deaths of innocents and incalculable waste and thievery. So many broken lives.

Unbelievable.

[UnyieldingHierophant]

3. friggin' absurd*

[Red Zelda]

4. Keep spending. Keep spending.

Keep driving this rancid republic into the hole where it belongs.
Go to hell, Dumbfuckistan.

States north and south and east and west must look to secession and the complete dismantling of this "nation" of criminals.

[moose65]

5. Mind boggling

And yet, that may be the very reason why no one cares. These numbers are tossed around so casually that most people have no idea how big a billion dollars is. We need some perspective on this: most people have an idea of how much money $50,000 is by comparing their own salary to that number. If a person makes 50,000 a year, it would take 20,000 years to make a billion dollars. Or how bout this: if you spent $1,000 a day, it would take over 2,700 years to spend a billion dollars. 12 billion or 610 billion is even harder to imagine. We need to keep pushing how much money this actually is... and it should be included as part of the deficit, as well!