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Costofwar.comhttp://costofwar.com [Costofwar.com] A running total of the amount of money spent by the US Government to finance the war, based on estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.

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Blogs.wsj.comhttp://blogs.wsj.com [Blogs.wsj.com] The Numbers Guy : Parsing the Estimates on Iraq-War Costs: only history will tell us the true cost or reward of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. How much did the Cold War cost us in today’s dollars?

Swamppolitics.com[Swamppolitics.com] The Swamp: OMB chief says Iraq war cost estimate 'partisan': The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could total $2.4 trillion through the next decade, or nearly $8,000 per man, woman and child in the country, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate scheduled released On September 10, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference to disclose that over $2,000,000,000,000 in Pentagon funds could not be accounted for. Rumsfeld stated: "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions." Why doesn’t the Republican controlled government start an investigation into the unaccounted for $2.3 that in missing?

Money.cnn.com[Money.cnn.com] Iraq, Afghanistan could cost $2.4 trillion - Oct. 24, 2007: "It's amazing to me that the President expects to be taken seriously when he says we cannot afford $20 billion in investments in education, health, law enforcement and science, but he doesn't blink an eye at asking to borrow $200 billion for a policy in Iraq that leaves us six months from now exactly where we were six months ago," House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey (D-WI), said in a statement Monday.

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