{"id":238650,"date":"2019-04-30T15:09:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T19:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238650"},"modified":"2020-07-12T15:14:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T19:14:27","slug":"since-2001-we-have-spent-32-million-per-hour-on-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/since-2001-we-have-spent-32-million-per-hour-on-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Since 2001 we have spent $32 million per hour on war"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Imagine all the good things we could have financed with all this money wasted for NOTHING.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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This March marked the 16th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n

In 2003, President George W. Bush and his advisers based their case for war on the idea that Saddam Hussein, then dictator of Iraq, possessed weapons of mass destruction \u2014 weapons that have never been found. Nevertheless, all these years later, Bush\u2019s \u201cGlobal War on Terror\u201d continues \u2014 in Iraq and in many other countries.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a good time to reflect on what this war \u2014 the longest in U.S. history \u2014 has cost Americans and others around the world.<\/p>\n

First, the economic costs: According to estimates by the Costs of War project at Brown University\u2019s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, the war on terror has cost Americans a staggering $5.6 trillion since 2001, when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

$5.6 trillion. This figure includes not just the Pentagon\u2019s war fund, but also future obligations such as social services for an ever-growing number of post-9\/11 veterans.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard for most of us to even begin to grasp such an enormous number.<\/p>\n

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Since 2001 We Have Spent $32 Million Per Hour on War<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n