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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Harry Hope" |
| Date: |
20 Aug 2006 09:42:08 AM |
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What, exactly, are Bush's "wars" costing us (other than people's lives)? |
From The New York Times, 8/20/06:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/business/yourmoney/20count.html?ei=5088&en=d8a8a98b903ff881&ex=1313726400&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1156084287-KD7hDuwCu39+szTW9wUp1g
A Nonpartisan Look at the Price Tag of Overseas Wars
By HUBERT B. HERRING
What, exactly, are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan costing us?
(In merely dollar terms, that is; the human cost is another,
unthinkable matter entirely.)
That’s what the Congressional Research Service, Congress’s nonpartisan
public policy research arm, explored in a recent study.
As the study notes, the Defense Department recently put the "burn
rate" -- a term for the sums being spent -- for Iraq and Afghanistan
at $6.8 billion a month.
But as the study says, that excludes maintaining and replacing
equipment or building and improving facilities.
The official "burn rate," it concludes, is only about 70 percent of
the true cost.
For fiscal 2006, monthly costs for Iraq alone could hit $8 billion,
the study projected.
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You can spare it, of course. Rightards have no problem with it.
Ask 'em.
Harry
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| User: "Pseudolus" |
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| Title: Re: What, exactly, are Bush's "wars" costing us (other than people's lives)? |
20 Aug 2006 11:50:47 AM |
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In article <7dtge2p7ccso7e0ih499c4tiad40sah5uf@4ax.com>, Harry Hope
<rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
From The New York Times, 8/20/06:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/business/yourmoney/20count.html?ei=5088&en=d
8a8a98b903ff881&ex=1313726400&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=11560842
87-KD7hDuwCu39+szTW9wUp1g
A Nonpartisan Look at the Price Tag of Overseas Wars
By HUBERT B. HERRING
What, exactly, are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan costing us?
(In merely dollar terms, that is; the human cost is another,
unthinkable matter entirely.)
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Ask the wrong question; get the wrong answer.
The RIGHT question is: WHO profits from the war; and by HOW MUCH?
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