It’s not just the troops that are surging.
According to a new report obtained by the Danger Room:
War costs are up for American operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are way way up, more than a third higher than last year. In the first half of this fiscal year, the Defense Department’s average monthly obligations for contracts and pay is running about $12 billion per month. Well above the $8.7 billion in FY2006.
Additional war costs for the next 10 years could total about $472 billion if troop levels fall to 30,000 by 2010, or $919 billion if troop levels fall to 70,000 by about 2013. If these estimates are added to already appropriated amounts, total funding about $980 billion to $1.4 trillion by 2017.
Can we afford not to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney?
From the Left 
$1.4 trillion is half the money in the U.S. Treasury.
Imagine what could be accomplished with this money for the good of the American people? Cures for disease, rebuilding this nation’s crumbling infrastructure, securing the borders, making education affordable and paying off our national debt.
This is nothing short of criminal. This president shouldn’t be impeached — he should be tried at The Hague and charged with crimes against humanity.
What Bush’s supporters forget is, we’re funding the war by mortgaging our future in the form of T-bills and the bulk of them are bought by our good friends in China.
Our bosom buddies the Saudis also own a lot of those Treasuries.
If Chimpy spends 1.4 trillion, then we can assume (given what we know) that fully $500 billion of it will be siphoned off via Chimpy’s crony corruption.
Chimpletons, don’t you just LOVE how your moronic monkey Messiah is spending YOUR money?
Well, what else are you going to spend the money on? Education? Healthcare? The homeless and those living under the poverty line?
This wonderful war has saved the lives of hundreds of thousands and made the world so much safer.
Thank you Mr. Bush for spending so much money so wisely. I’m sure your country really appreciates it.
My comment above is sarcastic, by the way. I know it’s hard to differentiate sometimes because there really are quite a lot of people that crazy 😉
I hear ya’, Dave. This son-of-a-bitch in the White House doesn’t care about anyone or anything but himself. He’s a true sociopath and not fit to be called “President.” I take solace in the knowledge the Bush/Cheney nightmare will end in 500 days.
Think what we could do if we invested that money in helping needy people instead of killing them.
Yet our two leading prez candidates, Clinton & Obama, say if elected they will continue to maintain US forces in Iraq.
Damn them all, Bush&Co and their enablers, including this worthless Congress, to hell!
Yet we have no money to rebuild New Orleans, pay for health care for all Americans, fund schools…