Charts: Bush Lowballed Us on Iraq by $6 Trillion
Source: Mother Jones
Ten years later, the Bush administration's projected price tag for the war in Iraq seems downright cute. According to the first-ever comprehensive count of the true toll of the combined wars, the estimate the administration used to sell the invasion in 2003 was about 100 times too low.
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To date, according to the report, medical and disability claims of U.S. war veterans of Iraq have reached $84 billion; ongoing care for wounded Iraq war vets and their families is expected to require nearly $500 billion more over the next several decades. Homeland Security got $245 billion in additional funding thanks to increased threats of terrorreal, imagined, and stagedover the last ten years. On-the-ground operations alone ended up being 16 times more expensive than the Bush cabinet's original estimate for the entire enterprise.
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