"A new congressional analysis shows the Iraq war is now costing taxpayers almost $2 billion a week -- nearly twice as much as in the first year of the conflict three years ago and 20 percent more than last year -- as the Pentagon spends more on establishing regional bases to support the extended deployment and scrambles to fix or replace equipment damaged in combat.What a tragic waste. We know we didn't need to go there, 4 out 5 Iraqis want us out (3 out of 5 want us dead!) and we still continue to pour $2 billion every week into this disaster!
The upsurge occurs as the total cost of military operations at home and abroad since 2001, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will top half a trillion dollars, according to an internal assessment by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service completed last week.
The spike in operating costs -- including a 20 percent increase over last year in Afghanistan, where the mission now costs about $370 million a week -- comes even though troop levels in both countries have remained stable. The reports attribute the rising costs in part to a higher pace of fighting in both countries, where insurgents and terrorists have increased their attacks on US and coalition troops and civilians".
The total National Institute of Health's (NIH) budget for FY06 was $28 billion and it's been flat for two consecutive years. George Bush has asked Congress to cut the 2007 budget below that $28 billion.
It is just me or does anyone else think that spending an additional couple of billion a YEAR with NIH, that would be saving lives, is a better choice than spending $2 billion every WEEK that has costs too many lives already?
Just asking
Get off your knees America - time to take your country back!
