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<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/> Report claims
Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost $4 Trillion...leaves out Obama's
military actions in Libya and
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Just your typical left-wing report from the anti-war liberal academia.
>From
>Yahoo<http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/much-wars-cost-report-says-4-trillion-130934180.html>
:
*A new report <http://costsofwar.org/>out of Brown University estimates that
the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq--together with the counterinsurgency
efforts in Pakistan--will, all told, cost $4 trillion and leave 225,000
dead, both civilians and soldiers.*
Where's the numbers for Libya and Yemen? Oh, those are the non-Wars Obama
started.
The group of economists, anthropologists, lawyers, humanitarian personnel,
and political scientists involved in the project estimated that *the cost of
caring for the veterans injured in the wars will reach $1 trillion in 30 or
40 years*. In estimating the $4 trillion total, they did not take into
account the $5.3 billion in reconstruction spending the government has
promised Afghanistan, state and local contributions to veteran care,
interest payments on war debt, or the costs of Medicare for veterans when
they reach 65.
The Congressional Budget Office, meanwhile, has assessed the federal price
tag for the wars at $1.8 trillion through 2021. The report says that is a
gross underestimate, predicting that the government has already paid $2.3
trillion to $2.7 trillion.
More than 6,000 U.S. troops and 2,300 contractors have died since the wars
began after Sept. 11. A staggering 550,000 disability claims have been
filed with the VA as of 2010. Meanwhile, 137,000 civilians in Afghanistan
and Iraq have died in the conflict. (Injuries among U.S. contractors have
also not yet been made public, further complicating the calculations of
cost.) Nearly 8 million people have been displaced. Check out Reuters'
factbox breaking down the costs and casualties
here<http://news.yahoo.com/factbox-highlights-costs-war-research-110411333.html>
.
Perhaps the most sobering conclusion of the researchers is that it's unclear
whether the human and economic costs are worth it. *Saddam Hussein and Osama
bin Laden are now dead, the Taliban is marginalized, and the dangerous
terrorist network al-Qaeda has been all but destroyed*. But Iraq and
Afghanistan are far from being stable democracies. Meanwhile, *the half a
percentage point a year in GDP growth the war has fueled has been offset by
the enormous increase in the national deficit*, the report says.
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