The [British] Ministry of Defence has sold off historic barracks and land worth more than £2.2 billion to fund the spiralling cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.The true cost of the invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein and driving the Taliban out of Afghanistan has never officially been released, but the respected Iraq Analysis Group has estimated that the MoD has spent in the region of £5 billion to fund the wars.
... Experts predict the cost of the Iraq war to the British taxpayer will exceed £1 billion this year for the first time since the invasion in 2003.
One billion pounds equals $2 billion dollars.
With all due respect, mates - We spend that every 5 or 6 days in Iraq!
I know ... we got them into Iraq.
Well, actually their Poodle, Tony Blair, got them into Iraq ...
It's kind of shocking to read that the British have spent a total of $11 billion dollars since 2003 and we spent more than that in Iraq last month.
And the British are by far our biggest 'coalition' partner.
Are we fools or what?
