$816 billion since 2003, and counting.

[desrt]

"Over the past decade, American taxpayers have sunk hundreds of billions of dollars into funding the war in Iraq -- $816 billion since 2003, and counting.

Meanwhile, domestic human, social, and infrastructure needs have suffered drastic budget cutbacks. One recent poll shows that 74 percent of voters oppose sending combat troops into Iraq, while an overwhelming majority of Americans consistently support investment in domestic programs like public education, jobs, food assistance, health care, and renewable energy and the environment.

Act now to tell the President and Congress: we can't afford to spend more on war in Iraq.

National Priorities Project's data shows that the dollars we've spent on 10 years of war in Iraq could have financed a well-rounded domestic program, including: provided 4.75 million students Pell Grants of $5,550; equipped 4 million households with wind power; hired 65,000 new police officers; supplied 5 million veterans with VA medical care; and paid 100,000 elementary school teachers .......

[Vance2335]

Let's see if liberals can go one day without blaming President Bush for something? Doubt it can happen.

[desrt]

You mean all the roads we rebuilt and paved so Iran can ship arms to Syria more quickly and efficiently? Or you're saying a self-sufficient, brutal dictator was more likely to jump into bed with a bunch of wacks like Quaida than desperate Sunnis are likely to today?

[Vance2335]

Or we can just let Iraq become a bed for terrorism?

[el_em_en_oh]

$816 BILLION???

That's 137,142,857,143 Venti-White-Mocha's, from Starbucks (@ $5.95/ea).

What a waste of money.

That's 330 coffee's for every man, woman & child in the United States! (Not including illegal Mexicans and their children)

[desrt]

......each year for a decade........"

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/blog/2014/06/18/we-cant-afford-spend-more-money-war-iraq/