How much do we spend per hour in Iraq???

[heidiho]

I'm composing a LTTE and I need that information. I think someone posted it yesterday or the day before.

Can anyone help me out?

[RevolutionaryActs]

1. Check this site out:

http://costofwar.com/


Oh the good things we could have done instead.. :cry:

[karlrschneider]

5. You beat me while I was doing some not so quick mental calcs......

:D

[NMDemDist2]

2. NBC news just said the 35 million is what we spend in 4 hours in

Iraq

hope that helps

[neebob]

7. NBC said that?

Well, that's something. If all the news outlets would say and keep repeating that Iraqnam is costing $7.375 million an hour, I think most people would start to have a problem with it. "Freedom isn't free" only works because people think in terms of personal sacrifices. It's way less effective against $7.375 million an hour.

[NMDemDist2]

9. yes it was in Andrea Mitchell's report on Bushies press conference n/t

[karlrschneider]

10. Maybe the figure $2,000 per SECOND would get their attention...??

Enough to buy a decent house in about one minute...
:eyes:

[BlueEyedSon]

3. Iraq = $177 million per day, $7.4 million per hour and $122,820 per minute

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=171440

[karlrschneider]

4. Well, the usual figure is about a billion a week, so

$1B / 7 = ~143 million a day, / 24 hours = ~6 million per hour...
here's a place
http://costofwar.com/index-public-education.html

[tuvor]

6. Shouldn't it be offset

by the 90 million or so being generated from 2 million barrels produced daily in Iraq?

[karlrschneider]

8. Does anybody know where the revenue from that production is actually

going? I sure as hell don't...

[Inland]

11. You know what? Nobody really knows, because Bush won't say

what the totals are for the occupation. That's the footnote to any rant on the cost of the Iraq war: we are left to guessing until the money runs out and Bush asks for the supplemental appropriation.

Best guess now is about 2 BILLION dollars a week. Or about six million dollars an hour.

[indepat]

12. We the people and the Congress will be told what they need to know

when they need to know it. EOS