Pelosi: Bush’s “$10 Trillion” War Will Never End
Does anyone really take this woman seriously when she says ludicrous things like this?
Washington (AP) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says a recent Pentagon projection shows the troop buildup in Iraq is not temporary.
A senior general says that when the buildup ends in July, there will be about 8,000 more troops in Iraq than when the surge began.
There currently are about 158,000 U.S. troops in Iraq.
Lieutenant General Carter Ham says that’s likely to drop to about 140,000. It’s the first time the Pentagon has publicly speculated on the number of troops who will remain in Iraq. Ham stresses that the troop level is tied to the security situation in Iraq.
Pelosi argues that Americans are demanding “a new direction in Iraq.” She says Americans are rejecting a quote “10-year, trillion-dollar war in Iraq.”
First, it’s worth noting that nobody wants the war in Iraq to go on forever. The left, in its never ending quest to cast the war in Iraq in shadows of hopelessness, would like people to think that Republicans do want an endless war but that’s just politics. We all want our troops to come home. It’s just that some of us want them to come home victorious.
Second, it’s also worth noting that the vast majority of troops who will remain in Iraq over and above the number who were there pre-surge will be support troops. Administrators. Logistics officers. Support staff. Obviously, these not being combat troops, the number of soldiers in actual harm’s way will probably be about equal to pre-surge numbers. Not that partisans like Pelosi care much for details like this.
And, finally, as for that “$10 trillion war” nonsense, let’s keep in mind that our entire federal budget - including all the money spent on roads, bridges, pork projects and entitlements like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid - “only” totaled $2.7 trillion in 2007. Let’s also keep in mind that in a single year we, as a nation, budget more for social entitlements than the entire world does on military and war.
The entire world. Global military and war spending was $1.12 trillion in 2005. America’s entitlement spending that same year was about $1.32 billion. In order for Iraq to cost us $10 trillion we’d have to spend as much as the entire world spends on wars and military for the most part of a decade.
Pelosi’s $10 trillion number is, to put it bluntly, just plain stupid.
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