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Flanker
20-04-06, 14:31
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Iraq war costs continue to climb
U.S. military struggles to repair, replace hardware
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By Jonathan Weisman

Updated: 1:07 a.m. ET April 20, 2006
With the expected passage this spring of the largest emergency spending bill in history, annual war expenditures in Iraq will have nearly doubled since the U.S. invasion, as the military confronts the rapidly escalating cost of repairing, rebuilding and replacing equipment chewed up by three years of combat.

The cost of the war in U.S. fatalities has declined this year, but the cost in treasure continues to rise, from $48 billion in 2003 to $59 billion in 2004 to $81 billion in 2005 to an anticipated $94 billion in 2006, according to the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. The U.S. government is now spending nearly $10 billion a month in Iraq and Afghanistan, up from $8.2 billion a year ago, a new Congressional Research Service report found.

Annual war costs in Iraq are easily outpacing the $61 billion a year that the United States spent in Vietnam between 1964 and 1972, in today's dollars. The invasion's "shock and awe" of high-tech laser-guided bombs, cruise missiles and stealth aircraft has long faded, but the costs of even those early months are just coming into view as the military confronts equipment repair and rebuilding costs it has avoided and procurement costs it never expected.

Schoomaker warned that such costs will continue, even after U.S. forces withdraw from Iraq. To fully re-equip and upgrade the U.S. Army after the war ends would cost $36 billion over six years, and that figure assumes U.S. forces would begin withdrawing in July and would be completely out of Iraq by the end of 2008, an assumption Bush dismissed when he suggested withdrawal will be up to his White House successor.

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waterfiets
20-04-06, 16:00
Het rare is natuurlijk dat er ook behoorlijk wat mensen erg veel aan verdienen.

~Panthera~
20-04-06, 16:49
Toch zijn er ook een groep Amerikanen 200 km door Amerika gaan lopen om TEGEN die oorlog te protesteren.
Ze waren er allemaal geweest, en walgde van de hele zooi.
Niet dat het 1 ruk met geld te maken heeft, maar het geeft wel aan dat niet alle mensen die oorlog zo geweldig vinden. :moe:
Die groep werdt, geloof ik, gaande weg steeds meer.