Political Bloviation

Heckofajob Bushie:

U.S. war costs in Iraq up: report - Yahoo! News
“Funding for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and other activities in the war on terrorism expanded significantly in 2007,” the Congressional Budget Office said in a report released on Wednesday.

War funding, which averaged about $93 billion a year from 2003 through 2005, rose to $120 billion in 2006 and $171 billion in 2007 and President George W. Bush has asked for $193 billion in 2008, the nonpartisan office wrote.

“It keeps going up, up and away,” Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad said of the money spent in Iraq since U.S. troops invaded in 2003.

“We’re seeing the war costs continue to spiral upward. It is the additional troops plus additional costs per troop plus the over-reliance on private contractors, which also explodes the costs,” said Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat who opposed the war.

And, to make it more fun, there have been tax increase or spending offsets to pay for the blood spilled. It’s been added to the national debt where it will contribute to the interest payment. Generations to come will no doubt love paying to hide the appearance of defeat in an ill-conceived, poorly planned cluster fuck that’s left us less able to respond to terrorist threats, shown limits of American military power and pissed of huge swaths of the globe.

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