$11 Million Every Hour What the Iraq War is Costing Us
By Rep. John P. Murtha
July 13, 2006
We are spending $8 billion a month in Iraq. That equates to 2 billion dollars a week, or 267 million dollars a day, or 11 million dollars an hour.
Attached are some comparisons between what we are spending in Iraq as we “stay the course” indefinitely and what those funds could be used for instead.
I’ve been fighting for our military to get out of Iraq because I’m concerned about the loss of our troops and the future of our military and also because I believe they have accomplished their mission there and the Iraqis must resolve their internal conflict themselves. However, I also wanted to demonstrate what these expenses mean to domestic policy in the United States and give you an idea of just some of the things that what we could accomplish with this amount of money.
NATIONAL SECURITY
* $33.1 billion/yr Department of Homeland Security FY 07 budget (4 months in Iraq)
* $10 billion (1-time) Equipping commercial airliners with defenses against shoulder fired missiles (5 weeks in Iraq)
* $8.6 billion/7 years Shortage of international aid needed to rebuild Afghanistan (one month in Iraq) ….. (Full Article)
