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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military operations, including the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, have cost $904 billion since 2001 and could top $1.7 trillion by 2018, even with big cuts in overseas troop deployments, a report said Monday.
A new study released by the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, or CSBA, said the Iraq conflict's $687 billion price tag alone now exceeds the cost of every past U.S. war except for World War II, when expenditures are adjusted for inflation.
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http://www.antiwar.com/orig/giraldi.php?articleid=13906
The powerful Israel Lobby, with its support of the Iraq war and its insistence that Iran be denuclearized, by force if necessary, is a major constituent of the War Party in the United States. Some Americans who wish to remake the Middle East also believe that supporting Israel includes providing its government with U.S. defense secrets to augment its military superiority over its Arab neighbors. They might be encouraged in so doing because, in truth, it is difficult to see how spying against the United States on behalf of Israel entails any risk at all. The FBI suspected that leading neocons Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Doug Feith, and
Stephen Bryen were guilty of providing classified information to Israel, but they all avoided prosecution and were later rewarded with senior positions in the Pentagon.
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...they want iran war next for their sake not ours
