The war is costing about $720 million a day or $500,000 a minute. The $720 million figure breaks down into $280 million a day from Iraq War supplementary funding bills passed by Congress, plus $440 million daily in incurred, but unpaid, long-term costs. Not counting the incurred, but unpaid, long-term costs, its still 8.4 billion a month. Then you add the 4 years of war and you get $403.2 billion upfront and $633.6 billion in incurred, but unpaid, long-term costs, for a grand actual total of $1,036,200,000,000 or just over a Trillion U.S. Dollors. Now think about that.
The Iraq war cost about thousands of dollors know one is for sure but that is what has been said.
I think you'll find the Iraq war cost a bit more than a thousand dollars
I heard on the BBC News tonight that it cost the US one trillion dollars!
Other than normal defense funding, the only losses incurred during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) was when the USS Stark (Frigate) was struck by an Iraqi Missile, killing over 30 US Sailors, wounding over 20 more US Sailors, and nearly sinking the ship.
Because of the uncertainty of the war in Iraq no positive figures are available and the closest figures are from the National Priorities Project and Amherst Mass. based group that tracks the impact of federal spending on local communities. The U.S. budget spent or allocated approx. $255 million per day or a slightly less than $1.8 billion a week. This includes military and non-military spending on certain things like reconstruction. Half a trillion dollars, more or less, but it seems no one knows for sure. It also depends on how it's counted.
-irving777 According to Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, the total cost comes to around $3 trillion. That includes taking care of wounded soldiers and losing the value of 4,000 dead people's labor permanently. This blog that could be done with that money, like buying every household in America a Toyota Prius and covering New Hampshire and Vermont entirely in gold: http://warorcar.blogspot.com/
It's hard to tell, but about 5,000 dollars are being spent per second... you do the math!
The cost of the Iraq and Afghanistand war was 758.6 billion from 2001 thru 2008
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_homehttp://costofwar.com/
To date, $830.2 billion dollars has been spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition, $77.1 billion dollars have been requested in the recent supplemental that further fund these wars, for a total of $907.3 billion dollars. The national, state, and local numbers we provide are based on the total of the approved and pending amounts through the end of Fiscal Year 2009.
There were three gulf wars in the 20th & 21st centuries: 1. Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 2. Operation Desert Storm Jan/Feb '91 3. Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003-
All of it so far. Which pales into nothing when compared to the lives lost
3 billion Dollars a Week
we spend 341.4 Mill a day in iraq!!!!
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
ALOT
$1,183,000,000,000
As we sit today Mike, Dan and Daniel, we asked ourselves the question, how much did it cost, or is still costing for the Iraq war. Simple answer is its still costing but as of 9.44am Australian eastern time on Sunday 10th May is has cost America financially $667,663,394,864.00 This does not include the human cost :-{
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.
$412 billion is spent in the U.S per Annam (the Iraq war so far has cost $558 billion)
723 billion dollars total, 150-250 million a day
Billions of money.
900 billion
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$2
ALOT
$1,183,000,000,000
Too Much! Too Much!
Money spent on the drug war?
20 billion dollars