War in Iraq for Israel will cost US Tax Payers 8 Billion a Month
As you’re sitting there playing your Nintendo or whatever videogame is popular this year, bear in mind that those kids you fathered will be paying for your lethargy the rest of their natural lives.
Pentagon Sees US War Cost in Iraq Rising
By Richard Cowan
January 19th, 2007
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The steadily rising Iraq war price tag will reach about $8.4 billion a month this year, Pentagon spokesmen said on Thursday, as heavy replacement costs for lost, destroyed and aging equipment mount.
The Pentagon has been estimating last year’s costs for the increasingly unpopular war at about $8 billion a month, having increased from a monthly “burn rate” of around $4.4 billion during the first year of fighting in fiscal 2003.
During testimony at a House Budget Committee hearing, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England said that nearly four years into the war, the Pentagon’s war costs were rising because it was having to replace big-ticket items such as helicopters, airplanes and armored vehicles that are wearing out or were lost in combat. (….Full Article Here)
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