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Katel, Peter. "Cost of the Iraq War." //CQ Researcher// 18.16 (2008): 361-384. //CQ Researcher//. Web. 4 Dec. 2009. [|http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher /cqresrre2008042500].

1. The us is spending about $ 12 billion dollars a month on iraq operations 2. They predeicted the war is going to cost up to 3 trillion dollars 3. $ 700 billion in tax payers money has been spent already 4. Joseph e. stiglitz from the university of coloumbia says "The War is very much related to the weekness of the economy" 5. Iraqi goverment has agreed to channel $300 million to U.S. authorites for rebuilding projects 6. The U.S paid for most of the costs to train iraqis and equpping their security forces 7. Spent way more in war than the adminastration ever predicted it would cost 8. in 2002 they predicted i would only cost $ 200 million but they think it will cost way more 9. They predict that military action will cost upwards of 414 billion dollars. 10. The U.S has spent over 600 billon on the bush administrations war on terrisom in six years after 9/11 11. If the troops are reduced from 200,000 to 75,000 it will only cost up to 1.7 trillion dollars by 2013 12. military spending effects the entire economy 13. War spending is a highliy ineficent way of boosting u.s jobs, spending on roads, and even reasearch and education 14. What we are spending on the war we could of paid for 57,500 more children to go to the head start preschool program, and 9,000 more police officers nationwide. 15. Two finacial experts say that investments in domestic health, education, and infastucture would provide more benefits to the country than money spent in iraq. 16. Two finacial experts belive that the war is pushing up world oil prices. 17. The war made oil prices go up by 10 to $15 dollars a barrel 18. In the week that the war started the avearage world oil by the barrel price was $27 dollars 19. In apirl the world oil barrel price was about 116 dollars 20. the war has added to national debt 21. some analyas say that unacounted weapons we paid for may have fell into the hands of iraqi insurgens. 22. The usaid says that the 20 billion that comes from iraqs oil revenue will pay for much of the rebuilding of iraq. 23. they say the war will end up costing as much as world war II which was about 3 trillion dollars 24. By the end of 2008 we will have spent about 756 billion dollars 25. The cost of recounstructing iraq, including care for refugees, troops to keep the peace and repairs to bombed infrastructures is an estimate of over hundredes of billions of dollars 26. They predict that the war should be over by 2013 27. United states has about a 13 trillion dollar economy. 28. The next generation of tax payers will have to foot the 800 billion dollars in intrest payments 29. After independence sevearal states owed a total of 25 million dollars in war debts

1. The fewer the troops the smaller the budget 2. The war has cost us so far an estimated 860 billion dollars 3. Analistys says that if prices from iraq just vanishied it would be too little savings and too late to jolt the economy out of the crisis 4. plan is to spend 144 bllion this year 130 billion in 2010 and a place holders estamiate for 2011 is about 50 billion 5. congresional research service estimated that in 2006 it cost 390,000 a year to sustain each american trooper over seas 6. Delaying withdrawls of troops will rub up the tab. 7. There are now roughly 180,000 troops there now, they want to reduce it to about 75,000 by 2013 8. congress would have to appropriate 388 billion dollars to do a quick withdrawl of troops and it could double to 867 billion for a slower withdrawl.
 * Glanz, James. "The economic cost of war." //New york times// february 28,2009, Print. ||

lydersen, kari. "war costin 720 million each day." //washington post// september 22, 2007, Print.

1. The money spent in one day on the iraq war could buy homes for about 6,500 families, or health care for 423,529 childern, or could out fit 1.27 million homes with renewable electricity according to the american friends service committe. 2. The war is costing 720 millon dollars a day or 500,000 dollars a minute, accordint to nobel peace prize winning econominist Joseph E. Stiglitz 3. The 720 million dollar figures break down into 280 million dollars a day from iraq war supplemantry funding bills passed by congress plus 440 million dollars a day inincurred,but unpaid ,long term costs. 4. war could cost 2.2 trillion without counting intrest 5. Hope to turn more people against the war because of it's financial impacts.

D., Dave. "How much money is our goverment spending per week in iraq." //MSNBC//. oct 22,2006. Web. 7 Dec 2009. 1.The total money spent a week is about 1.8 billion dollars 2. The cost of the war has jumped from 4.4 billion dollars to 7.1 billion dollars a month since 2003 3. some school programs and roads didn,t get built because the money went to military war operations