Joel Havermann of the Los Angeles Times has added up the the bill we’ll all be paying down the road for Bush’s no-hope war. Here’s an excerpt, but read the whole story. I was particularly struck by the bargain basement cost of World War II, a briefer but somewhat more extensive venture than Dick & Dubya’s Excellent Adventure.

If U.S. involvement continues on the current scale, the funding for the Iraq war — combined with the conflict in Afghanistan and other foreign fronts in the war on terrorism — is projected to surpass this country’s Vietnam spending next year …

Members of Congress have talked relatively little about the war’s accumulating price tag because of the human costs, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) said. “But certainly we’re cognizant of it,” she said. “When you say for what we’re spending in a month in Iraq, you could fully fund and double the science budgets of the United States and come up with a viable alternative to oil, it puts it in perspective …”

Posted by Jerome Doolittle at January 14, 2007 04:50 PM

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