A new CBO (Congressional Budget Office) report estimates the projected cost of the Iraq War, assuming we stay till 2017, may reach as high as $2.4 Trillion! That’s a cost of $8,000 per man, women and child living in the United States. Higher than the cost, adjusted for inflation, than the Vietnam War!
So when someone tells you the war doesn’t matter. First tell them to look at this webpage, showing casualties of U.S. soldiers nearing 4,000 and civilians well over 100,000 confirmed, then tell them it will cost them $8,000 for every person in their family. That is the equivalent, by the way, of a $400 a month health insurance plan for 20 years.
Republicans like Bush love to spend money, they just don’t like spending it on the health and prosperity of the nation’s taxpaying citizens. They prefer to spend the money on tanks, bullets and killing the citizens of another nation. If Republicans are so good at business, you’d think they’d know a good investment when they saw one. Spend the money on healthier, happier, harder working citizens, or blow it all on a blood bath gamble in Iraq?
The choice seems obvious to me, but then again, I seem to have that regard for human life most Americans have, that doesn’t seem to exist anywhere within the Bush Administration. Simply saying you respect life is little consolation to those who gave their lives to make Bush and his buddies a little bit richer.