before the war in iraq began the bush administration stated that the cost of the war would, in total, be $50 billion dollars.
today it was revealed that the war in iraq has cost u.s taxpayers $1.2 trillion dollars.
let’s look at those numbers:
the bush administrations stated cost:
$50,000,000,000
the actual cost as revealed today:
$1,200,000,000,000
meanwhile in the u.s almost none of the 9-11 security council recommendations have been put into place because we can’t afford them.
to put it in perspective:
if a contractor came to you and said:
‘oh, i’ll fix your bathroom, it’ll cost $500 and be done in 3 months’ and 4 years later they were still working on it and it had cost you $120,000, how would you feel?
-moby