...Once the war spending bill is passed, military and diplomatic costs will have reached $101.8 billion this fiscal year, up from $87.3 billion in 2005, $77.3 billion in 2004 and $51 billion in 2003, the year of the invasion, congressional analysts said. Even if a gradual troop withdrawal begins this year, war costs in Iraq and Afghanistan are likely to rise by an additional $371 billion during the phaseout, the report said, citing a Congressional Budget Office study. When factoring in costs of the war in Afghanistan, the $811 billion total for both wars would have far exceeded the inflation-adjusted $549 billion cost of the Vietnam War....
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I don't see anyone taking the war vets medical costs into consideration. Oh yeah, that's right. They'll just cut VA hospital funding and leave the psychologically damaged to fend for themselves with shopping carts on the streets of America herself. And then, they'll be the rush of refugees out of the countries the Shrub Administration "liberated".
Regards, Mike B)
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