If you’re an average American taxpayer, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have, since 2001, cost you personally $7,334, according to the… “cost of war” counter created by the… National Priorities Project (NPP).… They have cost all Americans collectively more than $980,000,000,000.… As a country, we’ll pass the trillion dollar mark soon. … These are staggering figures and, despite the $72.3 billion that Congress has already ponied up for the Afghan War in 2010 ($136.8 billion if you add in Iraq), the administration is about to go back to Congress for more than… $35 billion in outside-the-budget supplemental funds to cover the president’s military and civilian Afghan surges.… When that passes, as it surely will, the cumulative cost of the Afghan War alone will hit $300 billion, and we’ll be heading for two trillion-dollar wars.
Noble wars of liberation cost a fortune
