The One Certainty About Iraq: Spiraling Costs for Americans

It is time to raise unmitigated hell!

No more freakin' protection money to the cash sucking Pentgon and White House portfolios.

This is absolute insanity!

With the money we have spent in Iraq, we could all be driving Priuses and be installing energy devices on all our houses.

ABC News: The One Certainty About Iraq: Spiraling Costs for Americans:

"April 20, 2006: There are many uncertainties about the progress made by coalition forces and the future prospects for stability and democracy in Iraq, but there is at least one indisputable fact: The Bush administration vastly underestimated the costs of the Iraq war.

Not only in human lives, but in monetary terms as well, the costs of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq far exceed the administration's initial projection of a $50 billion tab. While the number of American casualties in Iraq has declined this year, the amount of money spent to fight the war and rebuild the country has spiralled upward.

The price is expected to almost double after lawmakers return to Capitol Hill next week when the Senate takes up a record $106.5 billion emergency spending bill that includes $72.4 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The House passed a $92 billion version of the bill last month that included $68 billion in war funding. That comes on top of $50 billion already allocated for the war this fiscal year. "