How much is each of us in the US expected to pay for Bush's war?

[LittleApple81]

A tally of US taxpayers' tab for Iraq

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That works out to $281 per man, woman, and child in this country. This sum doesn't include the extra gasoline and other fuel costs, nor Afghanistan.

Most experts expect the occupation costs to continue indefinitely.

"Two, three, maybe five years," suggests Gordon Adams, an economist at George Washington University and veteran specialist in military-cost issues. A rapid return of the American troops is "just not viable."

Though wanting to keep firm control of Iraq policy for itself and, to some degree, Britain, the US would like to involve troops from other nations in the occupation and reconstruction so it can relieve more of its 139,000 troops currently in Iraq and share costs. But key possible providers of troops, such as India, France, and Germany, won't participate unless the United Nations is given a greater role.

"The Europeans are not interested in sponsoring a US occupation, even in the name of reconstruction," says Christopher Hellman, an analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non- Proliferation in Washington.

Adds Mr. Adams: "The consequences of not going for that is that we pay the bill. The Bush administration is bound and determined to shoot itself in the foot at the cost of American taxpayers."
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0825/p16s01-coop.html

[Caution]

1. not nearly as much as it costs the families of those killed. n/t

[ClintonTyree]

2. That sort of...................

sucks up that HUGE tax cut that all middle America received. Except the rich of course, they'll MAKE more money from the pain and suffering of American soldiers and Iraqis.

[Paschall]

3. Doh!

<snip> The goal of the Coalition Provisional Authority has been to raise oil production to 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd) by year's end, still below the 2 million barrels of prewar production. That will be hard. A recent pipeline bombing cut exports through Turkey. ...

But reduced Iraqi oil output has helped drive world prices to about $31 a barrel from $26 after the war. It probably would have gone as low as $20, Chow says. The $11 difference costs Americans a goodly sum at the pumps. </snip>

How is it that the talking heads forgot to remind everyone before the invasion that the US was the world's largest importer of Big Bad Saddam's Big Bad Oil?

[pansypoo53219]

4. no cheep gas

will be the biggest sign that this ain't gonna help the chimperor.