Bwaaaaaa and they aren't over

[bigbadberry3]

Not even close to over.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/muc ... 34180.html

The Congressional Budget Office, meanwhile, has assessed the federal price tag for the wars at $1.8 trillion through 2021. The report says that is a gross underestimate, predicting that the government has already paid $2.3 trillion to $2.7 trillion.

"Politicians, we assumed, were not going to do that kind of assessment."

[mattblancarte]

Want the troops to come home? Yes?

Well, too bad.

Love,
Your Federal Government

[mattblancarte]

More than 6,000 U.S. troops and 2,300 contractors have died since the wars began after Sept. 11. A staggering 550,000 disability claims have been filed with the VA as of 2010. Meanwhile, 137,000 civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq have died in the conflict. (Injuries among U.S. contractors have also not yet been made public, further complicating the calculations of cost.) Nearly 8 million people have been displaced.