The fiscal cost of the Afghanistan war is currently estimated to be $4 Trillion.
...The fact remains, (click here) however, that if the CRS (Congressional Research Service) and OMB (Office of Management and Budget) figures for FY2001-FY2013 that follow are totaled for all direct spending on the war, they reach $641.7 billion, of which $198.2 billion – or over 30% – will be spent in FY2012 and FY2013. This is an incredible amount of money to have spent with so few controls, so few plans, so little auditing, and almost no credible measures of effectiveness....
Why worry about effectiveness when all that has to be planned is advancing the loss of income ahead of the end of the war. And what House of the Congress is handling the budget?
June 29, 2011
By Daniel Trotta
...The White House (click here) says the total amount appropriated for war-related activities of the Department of Defense, intelligence and State Department since 2001 is about $1.3 trillion, and that would rise to nearly $1.4 trillion in 2012....
Enough!
One question though.
All of a sudden there is this massive regional movement toward cooperation and defense in the Middle East; what the hell was Bush doing for eight years?
