{"id":2378,"date":"2006-02-05T13:34:09","date_gmt":"2006-02-05T17:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2006-02-05T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2006-02-05T17:34:09","slug":"the-iraq-war-a-100k-per-minute-boondoggle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2378","title":{"rendered":"The Iraq War: A $100k per Minute Boondoggle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, that’s right. The War on Iraq is now costing<\/a> the United States $100,000 of your tax dollars per minute<\/i><\/u>:<\/p>\n

The White House said Thursday that it plans to ask Congress for an additional $70 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, driving the cost of military operations in the two countries to $120 billion this year, the highest ever.<\/p>\n

Most of the new money would pay for the war in Iraq, which has cost an estimated $250 billion since the U.S. invasion in March 2003.<\/p>\n

The additional spending, along with other war funding the Bush administration will seek separately in its regular budget next week, would push the price tag for combat and nation-building since Sept. 11, 2001, to nearly a half-trillion dollars, <\/b>approaching the inflation-adjusted cost of the 13-year Vietnam War.<\/b>
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\nNo large-scale reconstruction projects are included in the spending, officials said.<\/p>\n

Currently, the Defense Department says it is spending about $4.5 billion a month on the conflict in Iraq, or about $100,000 per minute.<\/b><\/p>\n

Heckuva job.<\/p>\n

By way of contrast, you may remember what Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told Congress about the cost of the war on March 27, 2003: “We’re dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.”<\/p>\n

And before that, while the Administration was ensuring we’d go to war with Iraq no matter what<\/a>, Rummy said on January 19, 2003: “The Office of Management and Budget, has come up come up with a number that’s something under $50 billion for the cost. How much of that would be the U.S. burden, and how much would be other countries, is an open question.”<\/p>\n

Here’s a few other similar statements<\/a> from members of the most failed Administration in the history of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, that’s right. The War on Iraq is now costing the United States $100,000 of your tax dollars per minute: The White House said Thursday that it plans to ask Congress for an additional $70 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, driving the cost of military operations in the two countries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}