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19 Aug 06

Think Progress » CBO Forecasts ‘Staying the Course’ In Iraq Would Increase Deficit By $1.3 Trillion Over Next Decade

  • A phased withdrawal would save $416 billion on the deficit over the next four years and $1.28 trillion over the next decade. On the other hand, a strategy of “stay the course” will increase the deficit by $313 billion over the next four years and $1.3 trillion over the next decade.

Army Times - News - VA to review veterans’ PTSD cases

  • The number of vets receiving compensation benefits for the illness rose nearly 80 percent between 1999 and 2004 — from 120,265 to 215,871. During the same period, benefits for all types of disabilities grew by just 12 percent, to about 2.5 million.
09 Aug 06

USATODAY.com - Center for war-related brain injuries faces budget cut

  • Congress appears ready to slash funding for the research and treatment of brain injuries caused by bomb blasts, an injury that military scientists describe as a signature wound of the Iraq war.
07 Aug 06

Cost of Iraq war could surpass $1 trillion - Martin Wolk: Eye on the Economy - MSNBC.com

  • The most current estimates of the war's cost generally start with figures from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, which as of January 2006 counted $323 billion in expenditures for the war on terrorism, including military action in Iraq and Afghanistan.
06 Aug 06

Byrd attacks cost of possible Iraq war

  • With estimates of the potential costs of a war with Iraq ranging from $30 billion to $200 billion, and the federal deficit rising past $200 billion, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., is waging a war of his own -- against the administration.

Iraqi Oil Will Pay For This

  • experts said the war and aftermath in Iraq would cost hundreds of
    billions of dollars, a fact the White House refused to acknowledge as valid,
    even going so far as to fire Lawrence Lindsey for his realistic projections

The Seattle Times: Politics: Iraq war is costing $100,000 per minute

  • the price tag for combat and nation-building since Sept. 11, 2001, to nearly a half-trillion dollars, approaching the inflation-adjusted cost of the 13-year Vietnam War

National Priorities Project - Cost of Iraq War Rises for Taxpayers


  • The administration submitted another $72.4 billion request for war-related funding to Congress. NPP analyzes the request and what it means to taxpayers in your state.

05 Aug 06

The Costs of War


  • In a seemingly welcome exercise of congressional oversight, Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., held hearings on the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan . 
01 Aug 06

Army Guard units said not combat ready - Yahoo! News

  • More than two-thirds of the Army National Guard's 34 brigades are not combat ready, mostly because of equipment shortages that will cost up to $21 billion to correct, the top National Guard general said Tuesday.
31 Jul 06

Army diverts funds to war - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

  • For a president who campaigned in 2000 on restoring readiness to the armed forces, anecdotal reports of shortfalls of basic equipment is embarrassing as Iraq consumes more than $5 billion a month in Pentagon funds.

27 Jul 06

CorpWatch : US: The Rise and Fall of a War Profiteer

  • In November 2005, bulletproof vest maker David H. Brooks made national headlines when he blew a pile of his war windfalls on a celebrity-studded bash in New York City’s Rainbow Room. For Brooks, the highlight of the $10 million gala

For wounded veterans, the war goes on (Page 1 of 3)

  • A study by the Insurance Information Institute, or
    III, reports that the average soldier in Iraq has a 1-in-300 chance
    of being wounded in action. Department of Defense statistics reveal
    that nearly 500 personnel are wounded in action in any given month.
    Extrapolating from these figures, the III study estimates that,
    absent a significant drawdown of troop strength in the near future,
    60,000 to 80,000 troops may ultimately end up wounded.

USATODAY.com - Equipment shortfalls hurt Army readiness

  • Up to two-thirds of the Army's combat brigades are not ready for wartime missions, largely because they are hampered by equipment shortfalls, Democratic lawmakers said Wednesday, citing unclassified documents.

WorkingForChange-Sick of killing

  • Yet the National
    Center for PTSD estimates that over the course of their lifetimes, over
    half of all male Vietnam vets, and nearly half of female Vietnam vets,
    have suffered full or partial PTSD.
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