6 Ways Obama's Budget Is Worse Than Everyone Thinks

[flghtr65]

Originally Posted by EXTXOILMAN

Wikipedia?? Seriously...

Again, the figures I have seen are appr. $1.5 trillion in ABOVE BUDGET COSTS. If you add up the total all-in costs of the War on Terror, it may well be something like $6 trillion, but that would include normally budgeted defense spending.

Where did you see your figures?

[EXTXOILMAN]

Originally Posted by flghtr65

Where did you see your figures?

Very simple search. Google "cost of the war on terror"...

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf

http://costofwar.com/

http://stats.areppim.com/stats/stats_afghanwarxcost.htm

http://useconomy.about.com/od/usfede...rror_Facts.htm

http://www.cato.org/publications/com...orth-huge-cost

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...-and-counting/ (Even the estimates of ultra-liberal, anti-war PBS only tally up to $3 trillion, including a long list of incidental and assumed costs that can't be validated.)

And, yes, I ignored the obviously liberal slant presented by such non-partisans as Time, the L.A. Times, and Brown University.