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Iraq War Could End Up Costing $6 Trillion

March 18, 2013March 18, 2013 Buck Banks

$6 trillion

The amount Reuters predicts the Iraq War eventually will end up costing the U.S. over the next four decades.

Majority Say Iraq Invasion Was a Mistake

March 18, 2013 Buck Banks

53%

Of Americans believe the United States “made a mistake sending troops to fight in Iraq” while 42% say it was not a mistake, according to a new Gallup poll.

$6.6 Bil in Cash Was Lost or Stolen by Bush Officials, Contractors or Their Counterparts in Iraq

June 13, 2011June 16, 2011 Jon Ponder

There has been a development in the most under-reported incident of the post-invasion phase in Iraq. To wit: In 2003 and 2004 the Bush administration appropriated $12 billion in cash from the Federal Reserve, shrink-wrapped it into bricks — 363 tons of $100-dollar bills — loaded it into C-130 Hercules transport planes and flew it into the Iraqi hot zone, where most of it disappeared.

This was easily the most money ever air-lifted into a war zone. It may also prove to be the most lucrative heist of all time. Investigators say a little over half of it — $6.6 billion — is missing.

That’s right — $6.6 billion in ~~taxpayer dollars~~ funds seized by the UN from Iraqi oil revenues was either lost or stolen:

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Tag: Iraq War

Iraq War Could End Up Costing $6 Trillion

$6 trillion

The amount Reuters predicts the Iraq War eventually will end up costing the U.S. over the next four decades.

Majority Say Iraq Invasion Was a Mistake

53%

Of Americans believe the United States “made a mistake sending troops to fight in Iraq” while 42% say it was not a mistake, according to a new Gallup poll.

$6.6 Bil in Cash Was Lost or Stolen by Bush Officials, Contractors or Their Counterparts in Iraq

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

Numerati

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.