How much did we spend on the war today?
http://theiraqinsider.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-much-does-iraq-war-cost-per-month.html
How much does Iraq war cost per month, week, day, hour, minute, second?
Here are all the new charts and graphs we put out in the past few weeks:
U.S. Military Spending vs. The World in 2008
Total Iraq and Afghanistan Supplemental War Funding To Date
2008-2009 U.S. Defense Spending Highest Since WWII, Tops Vietnam and Korea
U.S. Defense Spending, 2001-2009
Historical Costs of Previous U.S. Wars
U.S. SPENDING ON IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN BY MONTH, WEEK, DAY, HOUR, MINUTE, & SECOND
(based on adjusted DOD FY 2007 obligations)
IRAQ + AFGHANISTAN
Per Month – $12.3 billion
Per Week – $2.9 billion
Per Day – $410 million
Per Hour – $17 million
Per Minute – $284,722
Per Second – $4,745
IRAQ
Per Month – $10.3 billion
Per Week – $2.4 billion
Per Day – $343 million
Per Hour – $14 million
Per Minute – $238,425
Per Second – $3,973
AFGHANISTAN
Per Month- $2 billion
Per Week – $469 million
Per Day – $67 million
Per Hour – $2.8 million
Per Minute – $46,296
Per Second – $771
SOURCE: Data from Amy Belasco, “The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11,” Congressional Research Service (updated February 8, 2008). Totals may not add due to rounding.
To put these in perspective, my colleague Kingston Reif found a few world records to offer some humorous comparisons:
In the average time it takes you to watch the Oscars (approximately 3 hours, 15 minutes), the United States will spend $55.5 million in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the time it takes you to set the world record in the hundred meter dash (9.74 seconds), the United States will spend $462,163 in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the time it takes you to set the world record in the mile run (3 minutes, 43 seconds), the United States will spend $1.1 million in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the time it takes you to set the world record for eating a 12” inch pizza (19.91 seconds), the United States will spend $94,473 in Iraq and Afghanistan.
If you had a padded expense account that allowed you to spend $1 million dollars a day on whatever you wanted, it would take you 1,918 years to spend as much as we’ve spent on Iraq and Afghanistan through March 2008 (approximately $700 billion).
February 28th, 2009 | Category: External Articles
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