Iraq, Afghanistan Wars Have Cost $1.3 Trillion
This per Democrats on the Joint Congressional Economic Committee. So you know it’s fair and objective and not at all slanted to conveniently fit their “let’s lose in Iraq at any cost” agenda.
But putting aside concerns over accuracy and methodology, $1.3 trillion over six years (from 2002 to 2008) is a drop in the bucket compared to the approximate $1.6 trillion we spend on mandatory social entitlements in this country every single year.

Wake me up when a Democrat is concerned about the impact our terribly burdensome tax code (which funds said entitlements) has on our society as a whole. Because this war spending will, eventually, go away. But unless we make some drastic changes to the way government is involved in our day-to-day lives this entitlement spending is going to keep growing until it breaks us.
That’s the real crisis, not war spending.












