Price of US Wars: $1 Trillion and Rising
Posted: January 27, 2010 Filed under: Imperial Power, World Hegemony | Tags: Obama's Wars, US Military Spending Leave a commentJan. 26, 2010 – Antiwar.com
The Congressional Budget Office’s newly released budget outlook notes that Congress has approved over $1 trillion in direct spending on wars and war-related activities since 2001, and that price tag is only getting higher as the wars drag on.
The spending was divided between $708 billion for the Iraq War, $345 billion for the Afghan War, and $22 billion for assorted other war activities in other countries. The Obama Administration’s repeated projections of a lower budget output for wars in coming years aside, they show no sign of slowing.
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