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Финансовые расходы США на войну в Ираке

Billion = миллиард = 1 000 000 000

Trillion = триллион = 1 000 000 000 000

You might find this interesting and appalling reading, but good to know.

Rudolf

Examples of US War Expenses

Ultimate U.S. Projected costs of Afghan and Iraq wars - Between $1 trillion and $1.4 trillion

The January 2005 Congressional Budget Office semiannual report projected the 10-year costs of the Iraq and Afghan wars would be $1.4 trillion at current levels of operation and $1 trillion if the wars were gradually phased down.1

U.S. costs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as of 2005 - $300 billion

In May of 2005, the U.S. Congress approved $81 billion to fund the military efforts in these two countries, its fifth such emergency appropriation since 9/11. The estimated total amount allocated for combat and reconstruction in these two countries up to that date was $300 billion.2

U.S. costs (in 2005 dollars) for WW I and the Vietnam War - $613 billion and $623 billion, respectively.1

An entertaining video comparison of Pentagon Budget with other U.S. Budget items:

http://www.truemajority.org/fun

Click on Oreo video (no endorsement of True Majority.org is implied)

Beebees and the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal - A video depicting the number of Missiles in the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal and the cost of maintaining them:

http://www.truemajority.org/fun (no endorsement of True Majority.org is implied)

The War Counter - an animated counter of the costs of the Iraq war compared to spending in the U.S. on pre-school, kid's health, public education, college scholarships, public housing, world hunger, the AIDS epidemic, and world immunization:

National Priorities Project: http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

F/A-22 Raptor - $64 billion

Lawrence Korb, a senior advisor to the Center for Defense Information wrote in 2005 that the F/A-22 Raptor is "the most unnecessary weapon system being built by the Pentagon".3 It was originally designed to achieve air superiority over Soviet fighter jets that now will never be built. In 2005 the Pentagon estimated it could buy 179 of these unnecessary planes for about $64 billion dollars. That's about $100 million per plane. Yet as Korb pointed out, "... the Air Force already has the capability to achieve air superiority against all enemies. The Taliban, Al Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents do not have jet fighters for the Raptor to conquer."

Central Intelligence Agency Budget (2005) - $ 44 billion

Homeland Security, U.S. (2003) - $ 38 billion

Anthrax Vaccine - $5.6 billion

In October of 2004, America faced the possibility of not having enough flu vaccine available during the upcoming flu season. The LA Times reported (Oct. 19) that although the government was spending $283 million a year on flu research, it had spent $5.6 billion on finding a vaccine for anthrax, a purely theoretical military threat.

One U.S. Nuclear Submarine - $ 1.6 billion. The U.S., in 2004, has fifty of these submarines.6

Two new 4,000-bed prisons in Iraq (requested by U.S. administration) - $400 million.

One U.S. M1 Tank - $4.3 million - the U.S. has a 2004 inventory of 403.8

Perchlorate cleanup in San Bernardino, California - $6.5 million

In 2004, Rep. Joe Baca (D-San Bernardino, CA) secured $6.5 million dollars for cleaning the Inland Empire of perchlorate, a rocket-fuel contaminant left from former military bases and defense contractor operations.8 If this money weren't needed for military cleanup, that $6.5 million could have been spent on other positive, constructive causes in the region.

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