Spent & Approved War-Spending - About $600 billion
of US taxpayers' funds. President Bush has requested about
$200 billion more for 2008, which would bring the cumulative
total to close to $800 billion.
U.S. Monthly Spending in Iraq - $12 billion in 2008
U.S. Spending per Second - $5,000 in 2008 (per Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid on May 5, 2008)
Cost of deploying one U.S. soldier for one year in Iraq
- $390,000 (Congressional Research Service)
Lost & Unaccounted for in Iraq - $9 billion of US taxpayers'
money and $549.7 milion in spare parts shipped in 2004 to
US contractors.
Also, per ABC News, 190,000 guns, including 110,000 AK-47
rifles.
Missing - $1 billion in tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles,
machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other equipment
and services provided to the Iraqi security forces.
Mismanaged & Wasted in Iraq - $10 billion, per Feb 2007
Congressional hearings
Halliburton Overcharges Classified by the Pentagon as Unreasonable
and Unsupported - $1.4 billion
Amount paid to KBR, a former Halliburton division, to supply
U.S. military in Iraq with food, fuel, housing and other
items - $20 billion
Portion of the $20 billion paid to KBR that Pentagon auditors
deem "questionable or supportable" - $3.2 billion
