The Cost of War

Danger Room Blog has run the numbers to stay in Iraq, long-term, and the bottom line is ugly.  REALLY ugly..

Staying in Iraq: $25 Billion per Year... Forever

The White House is once again talking about the half-century-long U.S. involvement in Korea as a model for Iraq's future. Such an approach would be brutally expensive -- costing as much as $25 billion per year for decades to come, [...]

Even the government's own numbers are staggering -

CBO: Iraq Will Cost U.S. Trillions

The Congressional Budget Office estimates the cost of a long-term U.S. occupation of Iraq in the trillions of dollars in a new report released this morning. The study appears to make some pretty conservative assumptions in calculating cost estimates [....]

And, incredibly, conservative!

CBO's Estimate on Long-Term Iraq Presence Appears Conservative

The Congressional Budget Office's cost-analysis of a U.S. presence in Iraq following the Korea model -- stationing 55,000 troops there indefinitely, in CBO's reckoning -- allows for the crunching of [...]

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