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Iraq war 'costlier than Vietnam'
(BBC NEWS, 31 August 2005)
The monthly cost to the US of the war in Iraq is now greater than the average monthly cost of the Vietnam War . . . The report put costs in Iraq at $500m (£278m) a month more than in Vietnam, adjusted for inflation. . . . This makes Iraq the most expensive US war in the past 60 years, they say. . . . But an analyst from the conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) said the cost was small in the context of the whole US economy. . . . The report by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF), called The Iraq Quagmire, calculates the cost of current military operations in Iraq at $5.6bn (£3.1bn) every month. . . . By comparison, the eight-year campaign in Vietnam cost on average $5.1bn (£2.8bn) a month. . . . The IPS and FPIF say this is partly down to differences in the way modern war is waged. . . . Although there are fewer troops in Iraq than Vietnam, they are paid more and weapons are more expensive, the report says. . . . "Broken down per person in the US, the cost so far is $277 per person, making the Iraq War the most expensive military effort in the past 60 years," it concludes. . . . Co-author Erik Leaver told the BBC costs in Iraq hspiraledled since 2003 because the US had not been well-prepared. . . . "We have deployed now roughly one million troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the numbers just keep going up and up," he said. . . . "We are going to continue to see costs not only from the fighting now but also from the health care of these soldiers and veterans when they come home."

[COMMENT by Lorenzo: Also, keep in mind the cost in human lives. Over 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed as have over 9,000 U.S. troops! The "official" lower number of U.S. deaths is due to the fact that they only count troops who die while in Iraq. However, over 7,000 others died in German and U.S. hospitals where they had been evacuated to.]

posted by LoZo 10:09 AM