Mind numbing numbers

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From Iraq war cost to hit $8.4 billion a month - Los Angeles Times:

WASHINGTON — The steadily rising cost of the Iraq war will reach about $8.4 billion a month this year, Pentagon spokesmen said Thursday, as the price of replacing lost, destroyed and aging equipment mounts. The Pentagon has been estimating last year's costs for the increasingly unpopular war at about $8 billion a month. It rose from a monthly "burn rate" of about $4.4 billion during the first year of fighting in fiscal 2003.

Here's my calculation of how $8.4 billion breaks down:

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Besides the horror as to what this money is being spent on, remember that much of this money is going into the national debt, to be paid for somewhere down the line … certainly long after Bush and his crew are gone.

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