$20 trillion man

[Ifly2]

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-iraq-war-by-numbers-2014-6


$7 trillion: Projected interest payments due by 2053 (because the war was paid for with borrowed money).

 

[Ifly2]

We drew from sources including various news reports, The Brookings Institute 's Iraq Index, and the Costs of War Project to document money and blood spent on the Iraq war between 2003 and 2011.

189,000: Direct war deaths, which doesn't include the hundreds of thousands more that died due to war-related hardships.

4,488: U.S. service personnel killed directly.

32,223: Troops injured (not including PTSD).

134,000: Civilians killed directly.

655,000: Persons who have died in Iraq since the invasion that would not have died if the invasion had not occurred.

150: Reporters killed.

2.8 million: Persons who remain either internally displaced or have fled the country.

$1.7 trillion: Amount in war expenses spent by the U.S. Treasury Department as through Fiscal Year 2013.

$5,000: Amount spent per second.

$350,000: Cost to deploy one American military member.

$490 billion: Amount in war benefits owed to war veterans.

$7 trillion: Projected interest payments due by 2053 (because the war was paid for with borrowed money).

$20 billion: Amount paid to KBR, contractor responsible for equipment and services.

$3 billion: Amount of KBR payments Pentagon auditors considered "questionable."

$60 billion: Amount paid for reconstruction, (which was ruled largely a waste due to corruption and shoddy work.)

$4 billion: Amount owed to the U.S. by Iraq before the invasion.

1.6 million: Gallons of oil used by U.S. forces each day in Iraq (at $127.68 a barrel).

$12 billion: Cost per month of the war by 2008.

$7 billion: Amount owed to Iraq by the U.S. after the war (mostly due to fraud).

$20 billion: Annual air conditioning cost.

Missing: $546 million in spare parts; 190,000 guns, including 110,000 AK-47s.

40 percent: Increase in Iraqi oil production.

$5 billion: Revenue from Iraqi oil in 2003.

$85 billion: Revenue from Iraqi oil in 2011.

$150 billion: Amount oil companies are expected to invest in oil development over the next decade.

$75 billion: Approximate amount expected to go to American subcontracting companies, largest of all Halliburton.

0: Nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction found (though a bunch of chems were discovered).

Perhaps most importantly, this list doesn't account for the emotional damage caused to service members and their families as well as the destruction to the homes, social fabric, and psyche of the Iraqi people.

 

[Ifly2]

189,000: Direct war deaths, which doesn't include the hundreds of thousands more that died due to war-related hardships.

4,488: U.S. service personnel killed directly.

32,223: Troops injured (not including PTSD).

134,000: Civilians killed directly.

655,000: Persons who have died in Iraq since the invasion that would not have died if the invasion had not occurred.

150: Reporters killed.

2.8 million: Persons who remain either internally displaced or have fled the country.

 

[Ifly2]

Great way to spread democracy and stabilize a region

 

[townpete]

Great way to spread democracy and stabilize a region

 
Still has nothing to do with Obama doubling the deficit.

 

[southwind]

"Obama’s Lowest Budget Deficit is Still Higher Than George W. Bush’s Biggest Deficit!"

"Obama Has Rejected GOP Proposals to Eliminate the Deficit and Start Paying Down the Debt."

"Total National Debt Will Nearly Double Under Obama."

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/01/09/the-7-things-obama-isnt-telling-you-when-he-brags-about-reducing-the-budget-deficit/

 

[southwind]

http://www.usdebtclock.org

 

[Ifly2]

The GOP has rejecte Obama's proposals too

In fact, rejecting Obama's proposals was the sum total of their "governance"

No plan, no ideas, no responsibility

Just no

 

[Ifly2]

Still has nothing to do with Obama doubling the deficit.

Wrong

It doesn't have everything to do with it, but it does have a great deal to do with it

Second, the U.S. Has to honor its obligations. Or lose every bit of the influence and power that it has and you are so worried about. The worst thing any administration could do is not pay the bills, especially default on the debt.

That means that each admin is responsible for the sins of all of the previous, and there were plenty on each side.

The snowball effect is in play too.

Serious stuff and it don't fit on on a bumper sticker and the only answer is drastic cuts, including to programs that you like, and raising taxes on the middle class. Taxing the rich doesn't raise enough and cuttimg taxes does not, or at least never has, increased tax revenues enough to cover the spread.

They are both lying through their teeth, and they are both proposing gimmickry and fairy tales.

You might be one of the few people actually willing to endure the pain necessary to eliminate the deficit and pay down the debt, but that is statistically unlikely.

 

[townpete]

Wrong

It doesn't have everything to do with it, but it does have a great deal to do with it

Second, the U.S. Has to honor its obligations. Or lose every bit of the influence and power that it has and you are so worried about. The worst thing any administration could do is not pay the bills, especially default on the debt.

That means that each admin is responsible for the sins of all of the previous, and there were plenty on each side.

The snowball effect is in play too.

Serious stuff and it don't fit on on a bumper sticker and the only answer is drastic cuts, including to programs that you like, and raising taxes on the middle class. Taxing the rich doesn't raise enough and cuttimg taxes does not, or at least never has, increased tax revenues enough to cover the spread.

They are both lying through their teeth, and they are both proposing gimmickry and fairy tales.

You might be one of the few people actually willing to endure the pain necessary to eliminate the deficit and pay down the debt, but that is statistically unlikely.

 
Still has nothing to do with Obama doubling the deficit.

 

[Ifly2]

Except that Obama didn't double the deficit, or the debt, all by his own self...

You are aware of Congress' role in spending money, yes?

Amd of course The People's demands that they do just that?

There is that "something" to do with your simple-minded Rush-ism

 

[Black Magic]

Amazing...under Obama the nation has added more debt than all previous presidents combined!!

 

[townpete]

Amazing...under Obama the nation has added more debt than all previous presidents combined!!

 
Yep, its official even by the GOV own data!

 

[Ifly2]

Amazing...under Obama the nation has added more debt than all previous presidents combined!!

Fits on a bumper-sticker

Anyone interested in the rest of the story, it only takes a few seconds to find good explanations and history that can be read and digested by the average High School Sophomore in a few minutes.

It was a long road getting to here, and there is only one way back, (sans crisis...) and no one is going to like it.

Least of all those who claim they want it most.

 

[Ifly2]

Wasn't it Cheney who said "Deficits don't matter"?

Why, yes, it was...