Cost of War in Iraq (MUST SEE)
 

Funny how governments bitch about how they don't have enough cash to pay for shit thats needed, then when a war comes along, they pump out hundreds of billions out of their ass.

thats a lot of beer money :glugglug

WOW thats a lot of money

Ha and it keeps on going, it's all good only 125 billion that's pocket change :winkwink:

That is some crazy shit, that is all i have to say.

If that amount was spent for AIDS Epedemic program, we could have fully funded world-wide AIDS programs for 12 years.

Fuckin' war ! :(

sadly that this aren't my visitor stats...

Instead, we could have hired
2,394,886
additional public school teachers for one year.

It costed me less when I lived in montana.

the right wants my money for war and defense
the left wants my money to pass out to everyone else
either way MY money is gone

or paid for 113 illegals familys

Instead, we could have fully funded global anti-hunger efforts for 5 years.

Well, if someone put that up on the web then it MUST be true!

How we got the numbers
http://costofwar.com/numbers.html


Currently, the Cost of War calculator is set to reach $135 billion on September 30, 2004. This is the lowest estimate of what Congress has appropriated for the war in Iraq in two supplemental appropriations. The first, Public Law 108-11, signed on April 16, 2003, appropriated $79 billion, and the second, Public Law 108-106, signed on November 5, 2003, appropriated $87 billion. (The texts of the bills can be found through the Library of Congress? legislative database.)

The $166 billion appropriated in the two bills include Iraqi war costs, military and reconstruction costs for Afghanistan, and other miscellaneous items. A study in January by Steven M. Kosiak of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments identifies $128 billion from these two supplemental appropriations that are directly related to the invasion and occupation of Iraq. To this figure we have added approximately $7 billion (included in the first supplemental) which was given as additional foreign aid to support neighboring countries, including Israel, Egypt, and Jordan.

There are others who believe that the monies in the two bills that will be spent by that date on Iraq are closer to $149 billion, but we have chosen to calculate for now based on the lower figure.

Another more wide-ranging analysis of war costs can the found at the Friends National Committee on Legislation?s website, authored by Col. Dan Smith (ret.).
Earlier Calculations

We had originally set the Cost of War calculator to actual military expenditures as announced by the Defense Department, plus what US officials have, in the summer of 2003, as the monthly cost of the occupation, $3.9 billion a month. We intended to adjust these numbers when the Defense Department released more recent figures on actual costs, but the Defense Department has frustrated the efforts of Congress and the American people (who are, after all, the ones paying for the war) by not providing information on what has been spent. As a result, we have been forced to rely on what the Administration has asked for and what Congress has allocated for military operations in Iraq.
Interest Costs

In our original calculations, we included interest costs, since the government is running a deficit and we consider these war costs unnecessary. They are not included in the current Cost of War calculations, however. For those interested in figuring the cost of the war in Iraq, including interest, they can take the current cost as displayed on our calculator and add 40% (so that if the Cost of War calculator lists the cost as $100 billion, the true cost, after 10 years of repaying the debt, would be about $140 billion).

Elias Vlanton and Niko Matsakis
Revised, May 23, 2004

If you used the money to educate the poor so they can get good jobs and have extra $$ to buy porn; I think this is better then funding more missiles to bomb potential future customers.:Graucho

The poor is poor cuz they're lazy. They'll never get anywhere if they're given handouts.

the more we realize the truth this war has cost not only the US people, but Iraq as well, this could be a turning point in the coming US election.

how pity, every second cost more than $1K

I love black and white statements.

yah but they're lazy cause they weren't educated or thier parents weren't educated and continued the uneducated-lazy cycle

fund anti-hunger measures world-wide or start a war.. hrmm..

Manifest Destiny has never been cheap

Ironic....

There is an 8 year old girl within 2 hours flying distance of the US who is turning in her bed tonight cos she can't sleep for stomach pains due to a lack of food today.

That ain't some "heart wrencher" - it's a fact - a real person - I met her. Kinda sorts out priorities in my mind.

Now... about "our values".....

That is always what bothered me about the Iraq war, all our money should be spent on us, and not on some Iraqi's.

Why are we funding schools there, but not here, etc.

Crazy, that's where I am!!! What part of Montana?

What a shame. Almost $200 million from a state with not even 1 million people. All those teachers, scholarships, etc. squandered for oil. :(

I think the scarier thing is that they've only spent around 450 MILLION so far after our representatives signed off on so much more than that almost a year ago..
Wheres the money honey?:helpme

OMG ... That's soo much money compared to everybody else . Imagine if they put that much money in healt and education ... now that would be a nice country

Wow that really puts those 125 billion numbers in perspective.

A small break down of the cost you can see not all that money is going to bombs and bullets.

Soldiers pay, housing, and meals are probably at the top of the "most spent on" items.

Plus a lot of that money is going to small businesses here in the US to build equipment and other "military functions".

Not that I support spending tons of money on war, but thought I would give a "fair and balanced" view.

God . . . . .. . if only half of that amount was sent to me . . . . ..

i guess, im a pornstar now . . . . . . but i could help the kids , the victims or whoever needs my financial assistance, no worries about it . . . .. but i would still be a pornstar then , , , , ,

I bet even Bill Gates gets a boner seeing that number...

Anyone have a stat on how much taxes are actually collected in the US per year?

Edit... here we go:


2.0 Trillion
U.S. Internal Revenue Service?s gross collections for fiscal year 2002, down from $2.1 trillion in 2001

$1 trillion
Gross federal income tax collections from individuals reported by the IRS in fiscal year 2002, down from $1.2 trillion in 2001. Other revenue came from employment taxes ($688 billion), corporate income taxes ($211 billion), estate and gift taxes ($27 billion) and excise taxes.


I've always wondered about how much the IRS pulls in.

That's scary.

What's the cost of one of Saddam's nukes going off in NYC?

Nice propoganda... How much are the survivors of 9-11 worth? And the freedom of Iraqis and the Afghans?
More that is posted here, for sure....
:2 cents:

FUCKING exactly....
:glugglug

There's nothing stopping you from cutting her a check right now.

But it's pretty fucking evil to demand that the government take MY money to pay for your pet cause.

So you finally found my live CitiBank stats? :)

good point.