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For the Record: Wars have cost $700B since 9/11
Mike Carney
A new Congressional Research Service report says the U.S. government has spent about $700 billion on "military operations, base security, reconstruction, foreign aid, embassy costs, and veterans’ health care for the three operations initiated since the 9/11 attacks."
The report covers the "global war on terrorism," known as GWOT, and the government's pre- and post-invasion operations in Iraq. About 75% of that money has been devoted to the war in Iraq, according to CRS estimates contained a report republished by the Federation of American Scientists.
Here's a chart shows the cost of these operations over time and on a per-troop basis:
Posted by Mike Carney at 12:15 PM/ET,
blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/06/for-the-recor-1.html