{"id":3721,"date":"2010-08-25T15:11:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T15:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=3721"},"modified":"2010-08-25T15:20:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T15:20:32","slug":"nipping-a-meme-in-the-bud-the-iraq-war-cost-3-trillion-dollars-and-yes-i-am-saying-that-in-my-mind-like-dr-evil-and-i-have-my-pinky-at-my-cheek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=3721","title":{"rendered":"Nipping A Meme In The Bud &#8211; The Iraq War Cost $3 Trillion Dollars (and yes, I am saying that in my mind like Dr. Evil and I have my pinky at my cheek)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Nipping%20A%20Meme%20In%20The%20Bud%20-%20The%20Iraq%20War%20Cost%20%243%20Trillion%20Dollars%20%28and%20yes%2C%20I%20am%20saying%20that%20in%20my%20mind%20like%20Dr.%20Evil%20and%20I%20have%20my%20pinky%20at%20my%20cheek%29\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Mark Tapscott gives us the heads-up that some in the Democratic circle are proclaiming that the Iraq war has cost $3 trilion dollars. The CBO, you know, those guys that actually account for all congressional expenditures, shows the cost at about $709 billion, a wee bit short of the $3 trillion mark.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a CBO chart of the expenses in terms of the deficit. Note that since Obama has taken office the deficits have risen sharply.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.sfexaminer.com\/images\/How+much+did+the+Iraq+war+cost.gif\" alt=\"cbo deficit\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In case you want to check for yourself (which I always recommend), the CBO numbers are found on pages 14 and 15 of the official <a href=\"http:\/\/cbo.gov\/ftpdocs\/117xx\/doc11705\/08-18-Update.pdf\">Budgetary Summary PDF<\/a>, which starts on page 32 of my PDF viewer.<\/p>\n<p>Note: There are certainly other undocumentable  costs of being at war, and I personally want to see our folly end ASAP. But don&#8217;t be stupid and try and use figures that are totally erroneous and made up and off the mark by a factor of 300%  &#8211;\u00a0 In layman terms, and to\u00a0 the IRS (unless you&#8217;re Tim Geitner),\u00a0  that&#8217;s known as lying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Nipping%20A%20Meme%20In%20The%20Bud%20-%20The%20Iraq%20War%20Cost%20%243%20Trillion%20Dollars%20%28and%20yes%2C%20I%20am%20saying%20that%20in%20my%20mind%20like%20Dr.%20Evil%20and%20I%20have%20my%20pinky%20at%20my%20cheek%29\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Mark Tapscott gives us the heads-up that some in the Democratic circle are proclaiming that the Iraq war has cost $3 trilion dollars. The CBO, you know, those guys that actually account for all congressional expenditures, shows the cost at about $709 billion, a wee bit short of the $3 trillion mark. Here&#8217;s a CBO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,27,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3723,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions\/3723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}