there's a new report out by Harvard University's Kennedy School government
and it's about the cost although wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
now I know that we were suppose to worry about these costs because
a an administrator in the bush administration told American taxpayers
in a hearing before the Iraq war the war would only cost
1.7 billion dollars
1.7 billion dollars okay
artery in fact at different times the
the administration said no that's not even true will be free they said the
iraqi oil would pay for the war okay
in fact you want more a statement by a bush administration official before the
war
it was from Lawrence Lindsey he was the Bush's National Economic Council
director
he said that the war would cost 100 to two hundred billion dollars
you know what happened the bush people so that was out
waitress of course is back at a cost that much the force in the resign
basically fired him in disgrace for saying the war would cost a 100 to 200
billion dollars
now before we even get to the report on how much is actually gonna cost us
going to be hard numbers what on what has already cost
now this is to be fair Iraq and Afghanistan to
trillion dollars two trillion dollars
you know that the debt on the interest
the interest that we pay on the debt to finance the wars that alone has cost
$250 billion dollars
so the interest on the debt cost more
then what was the most outward possible
number given by the Bush administration like I was fired for giving that number
another amazing fact you know the twenty percent of the total amount
added to the US National that between 2001 and 2012
would just the cost all the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
so when they talk about the debt all bother with that data Obama but no no no
your wars one bit the bar getting that time peered
was his those wars along but that's not lonely Kos
so the harvard study mention all other costs a
for example alter Medicare and disability compensation for service
members veterans and families are getting the
some detail now I'm the second military punishments
and social and economic costs ready gonna replace equipment that we use
know you got and the guys who work here at the time couldn't get ruining the
economy but they weren't
and then you got paying off trillions of dollars in debt that's
for as far as the eye can see you all that money we're gonna have to keep
paying that money
then you got huge expenditures to make to replace military equipment used in
two words explain and then improvements in military pay and benefits
made in 2004 to counter declining Rick Rubin rates
that also cost money now when he gets them medical treatment
you know much a that is crosses will first what it's affected 1.5
6 million US troops has 56 percent of all Afghanistan and Iraq veterans have
needed
treatment when they get back home at all costs a lot of money
in fact Sears a stunning fact a quarter of a million troops
have suffered traumatic brain injuries over there
their rate of suicide in among those troops
has doubled you know reminds me up unfortunately the and i felt now the
support for far more serious
and that's why there's been so many more suicides but you traumatic brain injury
and then affects you Inc many different ways including two
for greater rates suicide and you've got to go ahead and then a ball was bad way
to you have an ID explode underneath the car you drive it
right so there's not only
big enormous human cost involved but actual financial cost as well
the better administration's budget used to be 61.4 billion in 20 2001
it's now more than double 240 point three billion but that's nothing
compared
the treatment that we're gonna have to give these troops for decades on end
because
we have to or more missing limbs they've got a traumatic brain injuries
we owe it to them they bought our wars how much is that gonna cost us
836 billion dollars over the coming decades
remember the first estimate Bush administration put up was 1.7 billion
dollars
for the whole war just to treat the veterans going forward from today
836 billion dollars so the final cost
but the Iraq and Afghanistan wars when you take all these costs in a town
for 26 trillion dollars
so the next time somebody talks about the dead
and deficits take def by trillion dollars roll it up
you know where to point there was a warrant for your
stupid ass wars and yes Obama is responsible for the surge in Afghanistan
and continuing that
and me Afghanistan yes might have made sense in the beginning certainly didn't
make sense
for all these years we don't even know who are fighting over there
we don't even own agree with the government that's obviously corrupt
and fix the elections but the Iraq war
100 percent senseless they did they attacked us on 9/11
but they wanted to go get that oil and it didn't get it for us and they didn't
use the oil money to pay for the war
they did to get the contracts for multinational corporations
that actually run our government the same corporations who made it killing of
this war
through the defense contracts they got oil contracts they got
they got rich as we got poor
service on to bed damn about dead and deficit
this is what they care about
by trillion dollars and let alone did
terrible human cost for us the Iraqis and Afghans