Seems kind of weird and "ironical" to coin a Bushism that when Cheney and Bush were deleting MILLIONS of emails and LYING their way into two wars that have cost us over $2 TRILLION dollars AND directly benefited a company that Cheney had ties to, there wasn't much outrage about lying or dishonesty. Or when Cheney held secret meetings with the oil industry and then destroyed the records of those meetings.
Funny how selective and hypocritical folks can get when its not their political persuasion's representatives doing the lying.
One man's funny is another man's sick and twisted.
And you are being SO GENEROUS with your cost numbers...but I understand you are only counting current cost IN DOLLARS, not human tragedy and only Iraq.
'It was also an update of a 2011 report the Watson Institute produced ahead of the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks that assessed the cost in dollars and lives from the resulting wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.
The 2011 study said the combined cost of the wars was at least $3.7 trillion, based on actual expenditures from the U.S. Treasury and future commitments, such as the medical and disability claims of U.S. war veterans.
That estimate climbed to nearly $4 trillion in the update.
The estimated death toll from the three wars, previously at 224,000 to 258,000, increased to a range of 272,000 to 329,000 two years later.
Excluded were indirect deaths caused by the mass exodus of doctors and a devastated infrastructure, for example, while the costs left out trillions of dollars in interest the United States could pay over the next 40 years.
The interest on expenses for the Iraq war could amount to about $4 trillion during that period, the report said..'
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-war-anniversary-idUSBRE92D0PG20130314
OH and remember?
Ahead of and shortly after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, a number of officials, including former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz suggested the war could be done on the cheap and that it would largely pay for itself.