The Relative Cost of the War

In a recent post on this site, the US Govt is applauded for pledging $510 million toward helping earthquake victms in Pakistan, a key ally in the battle against Islamist terrorism. (I promise I won’t dwell on the fact that the U.S. originally only pledged a paltry half a million dollars and later raised this to $50 million under pressure)

So one question might be “How does this large figure of $510 million -- to an ally that lost close to 80,000 lives in last month’s earthquake – compare to what has been spent on war?”

Let’s hold that thought and touch on American Government aid to the tsunami victims. The Bush administration originally committed 20 Million dollars to Tsunami relief. And after being called “stingy” then raised this pledge to 350 Million in aid. (No matter that adequate aid would have been in the tens of Billions of dollars.)

Ok, next question “How much has the War in Iraq cost the American taxpayers?”

Answer: Roughly 300 Billion Dollars. ---And this bill continues to increase at the rate of roughly 5 Billion a MONTH!