Cost Of 8 Year Iraq War Less Than Obama's Failed Stimulus
Posted: 22 Oct 2011 09:55 PM PDT
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2011/10/cost_of_8_year.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Hyscience+%28Hyscience%29
Just to set the record straight:
According to the CBO, the entire cost of the Iraq War was less than Barack Obama's failed stimulus bill:
As President Obama prepares to tie a bow on U.S. combat operations in Iraq, Congressional Budget Office numbers show that the total cost of the eight-year war was less than the stimulus bill passed by the Democratic-led Congress in 2009.
According to CBO numbers in its Budget and Economic Outlook published this month, the cost of Operation Iraqi Freedom was $709 billion for military and related activities, including training of Iraqi forces and diplomatic operations.
The projected cost of the stimulus, which passed in February 2009, and is expected to have a shelf life of two years, was $862 billion.
As the piece goes on to point out, the cost of the Iraq war from 2003-2008 -- when Bush was in office -- was $20 billion less than the cost of education spending and less than a quarter of the cost of Medicare spending during that same period.
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