$1.7 trillion is a drop in the bucket by today’s standard.
“that never existed”
Tell that to the Kurds
What a load of crap.
A false headline built on false premises promoted by an overtly left-wing university institute. Next....
I find that hard to believe especially since the cost of the war at the end of the the Bush administration was publicized at about $900 billion.
10 year price tag for the Iraq War (so far)
How about a REAL study on the 'war on poverty', eh?
How many trillions down the waste already? And what the projected gazillions (hundreds of trillions) over the next 40 years on today's Obama Phone youth mobs?
Not a problem.
GW told us the Iraqi’s would pay for it.
Just waiting for the check to clear, right?
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Worth every penny.
Next time in the Mid-East, just arm both sides, and let them bash each other’s brains out.
The LibTards will feel stupid when the jihadists take over Iraq and dig up all those WMDs that “never existed,” but actually exist under the sand in places we never looked.
That’s a lot o’ green spent for delivering an Arab client state to Iran.
What a friggin’ disaster...
There sure seems to be a lot of articles coming out of the left stream media the past week about Bush and Iraq. Why, it’s almost like they are trying to distract everyone from Obama’s foreign policy failures. I think it’s pre-emptive journalism to try and cover for Obama because something awful is ready to come out about the Democrats and the Middle East.
Frankly, if Bush I had finished the job in the first place in 1991, we wouldn’t have been in this mess.
As taxpayers, we're all on the hook for that estimated $6-trillion tab. That's nearly half the current national debt.
On a lesser note, simple arithmetic I learned from public schools was also wrong as I learned from the LA Times that 6 Trillion is one half of 16.7 Trillion.
These reports are so worthless—over 40 years. Dam fool. Hey, how about 14T over 80 years, or 28T over 160 years, ya friggin maroon. Itza a much bigger number.
At the time - everyone’s, and I mean everyone’s intelligence service said Saddam had WMD - even those intelligence services from country’s who did not support us. Saddam refused to allow confirmation of destruction of WMD’s over and over again. He violated the UN treaty several times over.
He acted as though he not only had WMD, but was expanding the program to possibly include nuclear weapons. Why did he do that? I don’t know.
We knew he was sponsoring terrorist actions against Israel. 9/11 had taught us that we were vulnerable and leaving Saddam and his regime intact was perceived as a definite threat.
The fear was, do we wait for definite proof of his having WMDs, which in the meantime he may use against us, or, do we remove the threat now. Bush staked his political reputation on this action and now we know what? There there definitely were no WMDs? Has that been truly verified? Has it definitely been proven that he wasn’t working with Al Quedia? The post-Saddam Iraq was a screw-up by us and I think that is what damaged out reputation most.
Still a lot of unanswered questions to me, but maybe I just do not have the whole story.
LA Times, right on the Obama narrative, trying to blame his deficits on Iraq. Headline, which surely is the only thing most of this fish wrap’s readers ever see, more than three times what this latest estimate claims.
$6 Trillion, adjusted for inflation, is more than the cost of WWII, at $5 Trillion.
Can any accountants perform a Present Value calculation on that? My guess would be well under half a trillion.