$700 BILLION WORTH OF WAR. SO FAR:
REMEMBER WHEN 'THE WAR WAS GOING TO PAY FOR ITSELF'
WITH IRAQI OIL REVENUES:
It seems like an awful lot to pay for Abu Ghraib torture porn for Jeff Gannon and whoever he spent so much time with in the White House.
Ooops. I forgot. Halliburton is the winner in this 'war'. The torture porn for the freak brigade is gravy (so to speak.)
Why does Karl Rove always look a little 'moist' in photographs?
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Conflicts' costs may exceed $700 billion

War in Iraq, Afghanistan saddles U.S. taxpayers with enormous debt, critics say; deficit spending blamed.

By James Sterngold / San Francisco Chronicle

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have already cost taxpayers $314 billion, and the Congressional Budget Office projects additional expenses of perhaps $450 billion over the next 10 years.
That could make the combined campaigns, especially the war in Iraq, the most expensive military effort in the last 60 years, causing even some conservative experts to criticize the open-ended commitment to an elusive goal. The concern is that the soaring costs, given little weight before now, could play a growing role in U.S. strategic decisions because of the fiscal impact...
http://www.detnews.com/2005/nation/0507/25/A05-257768.htm
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Where Is Your Money Going? Support-the-troops rhetoric masks massive waste by Rep. Ron Paul

Remember the optimistic claims about how the Iraq War would pay for itself? The liberated Iraqis would exploit the country's oil resources and gratefully write a check to Uncle Sam, so the story went...
http://www.antiwar.com/paul/?articleid=5285
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