7%
15%
The exact budget of the American government for Blackwater operations in Iraq is shrouded in secrecy. But sources say over $6 billion has been spent so far.
3 percent
At current rates the Iraq war will cost around $800B by 2011 or roughly $100B per year that the U.S. troops have been engaged in the Iraq war.
723 billion dollars total, 150-250 million a day
The US taxpayer pays for their troops to be there add to this the uncertainty it has caused to the price of oil and you start to pay even more.
The exact budget of the American government for Blackwater operations in Iraq is shrouded in secrecy. But sources say over $6 billion has been spent so far.
Regions of Iraq are federal. Iraq is a federal republic because it has a federation type of states.
Not sure in more details or more recently, but according to Kettl's Politics of Administrative Process: In 2005, "the total personnel cost (including both wages and fringe benefits) budgeted for the for the civilian workers in the federal executive branch was just 7 percent. Adding those who work for the postal service, in the federal government's other branches, and in the armed services brought the total to only 13.8 percent. Cutting the number of federal bureaucrats by 10 percent would trim federal spending by only 0.7 percent, or less than two months' worth of the expense of fighting the 2003 war in Iraq."
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; the tax breaks for wealthy Americans.
federal government
No, that is a federal prerogative.
Approximately 15-20% of Iraq's population is Kurdish. The Kurdish population is primarily concentrated in the northern region of Iraq, known as Iraqi Kurdistan.
6 %
3 percent
$412 billion is spent in the U.S per Annam (the Iraq war so far has cost $558 billion)
Mitt Romney had nothing to do with US War in Iraq. He was not a federal politician at the time the Iraq War was declared nor did he have any federal involvement when President Obama withdrew the troops from Iraq. Furthermore, he was opposed to "ending the conflict prematurely" when he was asked about during the 2008 primaries.
At current rates the Iraq war will cost around $800B by 2011 or roughly $100B per year that the U.S. troops have been engaged in the Iraq war.