{"id":1811,"date":"2006-05-08T23:02:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T05:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/war-is-no-bargain\/"},"modified":"2006-05-08T23:02:37","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T05:02:37","slug":"war-is-no-bargain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/war-is-no-bargain\/","title":{"rendered":"War is No Bargain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/americas\/article360657.ece\">Independent Online Edition > Americas<\/a><br \/>\nIraq war set to be more expensive than Vietnam<br \/>\nBy Rupert Cornwell in Washington<br \/>\nPublished: 28 April 2006<\/p>\n<p>The Iraq war has already cost the United States $320bn (\u00a3180bn), according to an authoritative new report, and even if a troop withdrawal begins this year, the conflict is set to be more expensive in real terms than the Vietnam War, a generation ago.<\/p>\n<p>The estimate, circulated this week by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service (CRS), can only increase unease over the US presence in Iraq, whose direct costs now run at some $6bn a month, or $200m a day, with no end in sight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>That&#8217;s a full $2.2 billion since this article was published. Well, that&#8217;s inflation for you. <\/p>\n<p>The real war loonies will quote figures on deaths. Many of today&#8217;s battlefield injuries would have been fatal 40 years ago. How long before the number of seriously wounded surpasses Vietnam? Don&#8217;t expect anyone to tell you. <\/p>\n<p>I still seethe that the Radical Right jumped all over Kerry\/Edwards for &#8220;lying&#8221; that the war&#8217;s cost was $200 Billion. <em>Lying?<\/em> It was a gross underestimate. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent Online Edition > Americas Iraq war set to be more expensive than Vietnam By Rupert Cornwell in Washington Published: 28 April 2006 The Iraq war has already cost the United States $320bn (\u00a3180bn), according to an authoritative new report, and even if a troop withdrawal begins this year, the conflict is set to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/war-is-no-bargain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">War is No Bargain<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}