Iraq War costs every American family $100 a month

[yurbud]

That kind of takes the shine off the rebate check doesn't it?

Be sure to share this with your righty friends when they start to piss and moan about how much we spend on illegal immigrants, PBS, or whatever else Rush got them in a froth about that day.

“When Iraq is costing each household about $100 a month, you’re paying a price for this war,” he said in the speech in Charleston, W.Va.

At $100 per month, the war cost to each U.S. household would be more than cable TV (average bill: $58), but less than a car payment (average bill: $400-500).

We asked the Obama campaign about the source of the $100 figure and were told it came from The Three Trillion Dollar War, a new book by Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and Linda J. Bilmes, a former Commerce Department official from the Clinton administration who is now a professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

The book says the monthly operating cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is about $16-billion.

“To think of it another way,” the book says, “roughly every American household is spending $138 per month on the current operating costs of the wars, with a little more than $100 per month going to Iraq alone.”

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/apr/01/iraq-war-100-month/">FULL TEXT

[Muttocracy]

1. to me that is what will (maybe is starting ) to turn public opinion

The war has not been an economic stimulus for us the way some people say it. I wonder if there was a check-off box on tax returns

. Send $1200 of your rebate to the Occupation of Iraq?

how many would check it?

[JDPriestly]

2. I can't afford it. It brings me nothing.

And I don't think that our presence brings much to the Iraqis. They fight when we are there, and they will fight after we leave. It's all the same whether we stay or go. But staying not only costs us too much money, but also costs the lives of our sons and daughters. It was a huge mistake. Why can't the Republicans just admit they were wrong and get on with life?

[Patchuli]

5. Really! That $ would cover our energy bill

every month! A much better use for OUR money than Iraq!

[samsingh]

3. if someone had asked for $100/month to irradicate poverty

and improve healthcare, the extremist right wing fanatics would have had blowouts. but they have no problem using money to kill other people.

[coriolis]

4. Point of order, if I may: There is no WAR in Iraq, there is an (illegal) OCCUPATION

of a SOVEREIGN nation which never did anything to the occupiers.

Sorry for the shouting, it's a sore spot with me.

[yurbud]

6. was Vietnam an occupation too?

[coriolis]

7. No

;-)
A different kind of clusterfuck.

[Beaverhausen]

8. If those who think we are doing the right thing in Iraq complain about $100 a month, they should....

....be called unpatriotic.