how much Money have we spent in the two wars (Iraq and Afghanistan)?
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I dont know the exact amount spent on each. But I can tell you that the national debt is now around $8,000,000,000,000 and that every day the US government spends roughly one billion dollars on the military alone. By the way, all this money, the government is borrowing it from China. Sorry I cant help you anymore than that.\n\n\npeace
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The source below says that it was Wilson, who jumped from outlays of $713 million in 1916 to $1.954 billion in 1917 because of the costs of WWI. However, they lump all of 1789-1849 and 1850-1900 into two large categories. However, it is unlikely that spending reached one billion dollars during that period.
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Payments to ghost employees. Contractors overcharging by hundreds of millions of dollars on no-bid contracts. And billions in reconstruction money gone missing. The list of reasons for an Independent War Profiteering Commission just keeps on growing.\n\nThe Pentagon's Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) disputed $263 million in charges from Halliburton subsidiary Kellog, Brown and Root for its $2.41 billion no-bid contract. Normally, the Army withholds between 55 to 75 percent of the monies flagged by the auditors.\n\nSo what did the Army do in this case? It withheld 3.8 percent of the payments. Yes, you read that correctly, 3.8 percent – meaning it paid all but $10 million of the charges in question despite the alleged corruption. This just Halliburton, so many others are making huge profits of this war! Makes you wonder??   \nWorld > Terrorism & Security\nposted January 10, 2006 at 11:00 a.m.\n\nReport: Iraq war costs could top $2 trillion\nNew study takes into account long-term costs of healthcare for wounded soldiers.\nBy Tom Regan | csmonitor.com\nA new study by Columbia University economist Joseph E. Stiglitz, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001, and Harvard lecturer Linda Bilmes concludes that the total costs of the Iraq war could top the $2 trillion mark. Reuters reports this total, which is far above the US administration's prewar projections, takes into account the long term healthcare costs for the 16,000 US soldiers injured in Iraq so far.\n\n    "Even taking a conservative approach, we have been surprised at how large they are," the study said, referring to total war costs. "We can state, with some degree of confidence, that they exceed a trillion dollars."\n\nThe higher $2 trillion amount takes a 'moderate' approach. Both figures are based on the projection that US troops will remain in Iraq until 2010, with steadily decreasing numbers each year. The economists also used government data from past wars, and included such costs as the rise in the price of oil, a larger US deficit and greater global insecurity caused by the war, the loss to the economy from injured veterans who cannot contribute as productively as they would have done if not injured, and the increased costs of recruiting to replenish a military drained by repeated tours of duty in Iraq. These are items which are almost never included by the US government when determining the cost of the war.\n \n  \n   \n\n   \n  \n \n\nBefore the war started, Mitch Daniels, then the White House budget director, had said the war would be an "affordable endeavor" and rejected an estimate by the chief White House economic adviser that the war would cost between $100 billion and $200 billion as "very, very high." What a joke, if the American public was told this at the begining what would they have done? It sounds like they knew and covered it up as always!!!
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About 4.2 Billion Dollars.\n\nSo far all the figures listed above aren't even close.  Whose the idiot that said only 1 million and 100K??
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No enough, and by a far margin.  If only 1/10 of what is being spend on armament would be devoted to space, NASA would be swimming in money.\nIn 2005, NASA budget was $16.2 billion (see link #1) and compare that to the spending of US army in Iraq: $3.9 billion per month in 2003 ($1 billion per month in Afghanistan -- see second link) and that was in 2003!  US military spending is over $400 billion per year, and that is to *not catch*  Bin Laden.
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70 thousand million? I totally agree. Instead of going to Iraq, this money would be much better spent in our education system. 70 thousand million?!?! LOL
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Booming Baby! Booming! We, in the US, were at WAR during some of that period and as with all wars fought on foreign soil, we were benefiting economically.\n\nGDP +10.32%, -4.32%, 9.77%, 5.48%, 12.99%, 7.47% for the years 1995-1900 respectively.\n\nHere is a tip though, two of the six years we were not at war.
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Jon Stewart (I love his show) recently had a figure on there that, including the most recent request for $, the war in Iraq is costing each US taxpayer +$2,000.  That's EACH!  \n\nOf course, he made this point too.  We aren't paying for it, you and I.  Who will pay for it?  Our grandkids - because while we are fighting two wars right now, we are also cutting taxes and increasing the deficit and therefore the debt.
634881
War costs money!\n\nOne complete sentence.
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pay for that damn war
434106
it's more then $500 billion. While Congress has allocated over $250 billion in direct spending, large amounts of equipment, hazard pay, death payments, massive healthcare costs, and opportunity costs and basic loan interest to pay for all of that could easily top $600 to $1 trillion when the books come.
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I heard 250,000 civilians in Iraq alone.  And it's not just Afghanistan and Iraq.  There are other conflicts the U.S. has had a hand in that they WILL NEVER tell you about.  If you think about that sh!t, I don't think you'll want to keep reading what you've been reading.
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I thought the American public had forgotten about Afghanistan...We've already lost too many precious soldiers lives to a war that was based on lies.  These four troops just added to the blood toll on President Bush's hands.  We should be asking the question of how many of our public officials' children have been killed in Afghanistan or Iraq?  The wars in the 20th and now 21st century have always been fought by the poor and lower middle class who have been proud to serve their country with ideals that America was founded on - freedom, liberty and justice.
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Everywhere you look there is a different total\n\n\nRevolutionary War  (1775-1783) 4,435  \nWar of 1812  (1812-1815) 2,260 \nMexican War  (1846-1848) 13,283  \nCivil War  (1861-1865) 623,026  \nSpanish-American War  (1898) 2,446  \nWorld War I  (1917-1918) 116,708  \nWorld War II  (1941-1945) 407,316 \nKorean War  (1950-1953) 36,914  \nVietnam War  (1964-1973) 58,169  \nPersian Gulf War  (1991)  269  \nAfghanistan  (2002-2006) 220+ \nOperation: Iraqi Freedom  (2003-2006) 2,200+ \nTOTALS 49 years 1,267,246
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There aren't car bombs going off and US servicemen paying the ultimate sacrifice every day in Afghanistan. Bad news sells. Plus, even the liberal media knows Afghanistan was necessary, they just don't see Iraq in the same light.
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This shows the cost and casualties of the major wars http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/other/stats/warcost.htm
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Total - Barely over 500,000\nIn Iraq - over 135,00\nOverseas in General (Germany, Italy, Korea, etc) - 328,000\nStateside - 174,000