May 5th-The Cost of the War In Iraq-$167,698,005,873

The War in Iraq Costs


$167,698,005,873



See the cost in your community:


Compare to the cost of:

PRE-SCHOOL

KIDS' HEALTH

PUBLIC EDUCATION

COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS

PUBLIC HOUSING

WORLD HUNGER

AIDS EPIDEMIC

WORLD IMMUNIZATION

http://www.costofwar.com/

Read:
Billions More for Military Contractors and Permanent Bases

Aaron Glantz

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m11101&l=i&size=1&hd=0

and that just barely covers the cost of the Grand Square in the Center of Baghdad named after George W. Bush.

In the fall of 2002, economic advisor Larry Lindsay said the Iraq war and reconstruction would cost $200 billion and was fired soon thereafter.

Even that projection is appearing incorrect and will be much higher...

What are US taxpayers supposed to do for the next four years as the lies pile up ?

I'm glad I live on subsistence wages. At least I don't pay much in taxes.

And this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/05/international/middleeast/05cash.html?pagewanted=all

U.S. Mishandled $96.6 Million in Rebuilding Iraq, Report Finds

By ERIK ECKHOLM
Published: May 5, 2005
American officials rushing to start small building projects in a large swath of Iraq in 2003 and 2004 did not keep required records on the spending of $89.4 million in cash and cannot account at all for another $7.2 million, a federal watchdog reported yesterday.

Forum: The Transition in Iraq
Most of the poorly documented spending appeared to involve incompetence or haste, but in some cases the auditors said they suspected theft. "We found indications of fraud," said the report by Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction. Some cases were referred to a criminal investigations unit of the inspector general's office. CON'T

My imagination just goes wild at the possibilities of what that 2.3 TRILLION DOLLARS is being used to accomplish: manipulate the markets, build deep-earth bunkers to protect the few from a planned attack, purchase several countries, buy-off the IMF or World Bank,...

:shrug:

So DoD has managed to piss away about 20% of GDP with unknown spending. This says volumes about Congressional control of the military, doesn't it ?