6 Ways Obama's Budget Is Worse Than Everyone Thinks

Wikipedia?? Seriously...

Again, the figures I have seen are appr. $1.5 trillion in ABOVE BUDGET COSTS. If you add up the total all-in costs of the War on Terror, it may well be something like $6 trillion, but that would include normally budgeted defense spending. Originally Posted by EXTXOILMAN

Where did you see your figures?

Where did you see your figures? Originally Posted by flghtr65

Very simple search. Google "cost of the war on terror"...

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf

http://costofwar.com/

http://stats.areppim.com/stats/stats_afghanwarxcost.htm

http://useconomy.about.com/od/usfede...rror_Facts.htm

http://www.cato.org/publications/com...orth-huge-cost

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...-and-counting/ (Even the estimates of ultra-liberal, anti-war PBS only tally up to $3 trillion, including a long list of incidental and assumed costs that can't be validated.)

And, yes, I ignored the obviously liberal slant presented by such non-partisans as Time, the L.A. Times, and Brown University.