Iraq war 'will cost each US family $3,415' Now what do you think of Bush?

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Don't forget to take into account that the majority of you make minimum wage, which is crap compared to most countries. And it sounds like the majority of you are going to vote Bush in again.

The United States has spent more than $126bn on the war in Iraq, which will ultimately cost every American family an estimated $3,415, according to a new report by two thinktanks

As of June 16, before yesterday's nationwide attacks, up to 11,317 Iraqi civilians and 6,370 Iraqi soldiers or insurgents had been killed, according to the report, which is titled Paying the Price: The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War.

The death toll among coalition troops was 952 by the same date, of which 853 were American. Some 694, were killed after George Bush declared the end of major combat operations on May 1 last year. Between 50 and 90 civilian contractors and missionaries and 30 journalists have also been killed, the report says.

In a separate USA Today/ CNN/Gallup Poll released last night, for the first time a majority of Americans said the US-led invasion of Iraq was a mistake. In all, 54% of those polled said the move was a mistake, compared to 41% three weeks ago.

"We are paying this enormously high price for failure," Phyllis Bennis, the report's lead author, said yesterday. "It's not as if we are becoming more safe. It's not as if we are bringing peace to Iraq or democracy to the Middle East."
 

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On top of the $126.1bn war spending approved by US Congress to date, another $25bn is likely to be spent by the end of this year.

The report predicted the war will ultimately cost each US household $3,415; its annual costs would be enough to provide healthcare for more than half of the 43 million US citizens who lack medical insur ance. Danielle Pletka, an analyst at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, rejected such budget comparisons as intellectually dishonest. "That's not the way budgets work," she said. "I don't think healthcare has been robbed to pay for Iraq."
 

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I'll help pay for the war, you help pay for your own healthcare. I already pay for mine. How about some personal responsibility, you liberal left wing wackos.
 

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How much money did it cost per person for Clintons non approved undeclared war in Bosnia?
Was Bosnia an immediate threat to us?

How about FDR unprovked attack on Germany afterall it was Japan who attacked us.

How about the intervention in Korea? N. Korea never proved to be an immediate threat on the US....of course S. Korea migh be glad we did since they are presently the 14th largest economy in the world.
I wish some of you people would read more history and less bumper stickers.
 

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Redneckman.....When you speak of personal responsibility....if the government ever shown some reponsibility for the American public and how it spends our tax dollars, we wouldn't be discussing this now, would we???

When you say you'll help pay for the war.....you better have awful deep pockets, because there's more countries to invade and trillions of dollars more to be spent...stay tuned....

Frankly I'd rather pay for my own health insurance than pay for all the war games....I know what my health insurance costs.....paying for a military, and Haliburton and Cheney is like throwing money into a bottomless pit....
 

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