Through Fiscal Year 2022, the United States federal government has spent and obligated $8 trillion dollars on the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.

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[navysealdad]

Through Fiscal Year 2022, the United States federal government has spent and obligated $8 trillion dollars on the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. This figure includes: direct Congressional war appropriations; war-related increases to the Pentagon base budget; veterans care and disability; increases in the homeland security budget; interest payments on direct war borrowing; foreign assistance spending; and estimated future obligations for veterans’ care.

This total omits many other expenses, such as the macroeconomic costs to the US economy; the opportunity costs of not investing war dollars in alternative sectors; future interest on war borrowing; and local government and private war costs.

[Red Badger]

That’s 8,000 Billion dollars....................

[wildcard_redneck]

Isn’t that the total of America’s debt right now? The fruitless Forever War is being used to enrich our tormentors and impoverish and enslave us.

[Bob434]

The gov seems to always have Plenty of money for terrorist nations But no money for seniors, disabled and veterans here in the us because gov had the key to the “lock box” of social security and spent it all

[4Runner]

Why doesn’t the article mention the billions of taxpayer dollars sent to Zelensky and the Ukraine military, via Biden executive orders?

[escapefromboston]

That’s almost real money

[marktwain]

Sounds as if they are including all Department of Defense expenditures, all foreign aid, all DOD retirement funds and DOD benefits, such as veteran's hospitals, etc.

The world is ruled by force. Give up your force, and you will be ruled by someone who has not given up theirs.

[Leaning Right]

Joe Biden is leading this country straight off the cliff. But do not forget for a moment who got this wasteful and bloody mess in motion after 9/11.
Yes, George W. Bush, I’m talking about you.

Trump tried to reverse course on this. That was just one reason he had to be pushed aside.

[cgbg]

You are right—without spending all this money we might end up ruled by a foreign power that didn’t hate white people and didn’t try to push perversion on our children!

[SaveFerris]

[Yes, George W. Bush, I’m talking about you.]

And he has made it quite clear, lo these past 15 years or so, as to where his true allegiance lies.

[sauropod]

No. We’re going north of 31 trillion dollars right now.

[Rebel_Ace]

A good chunk, but nowhere near the total US national debt.

US Debt Clock

[ronnie raygun]

How do you think the average politicians with a 200,000 dollar salary are multimillionaires today.

[wildcard_redneck]

"No. We’re going north of 31 trillion dollars right now."

Good Lord! That is $94,000 for every man, woman, and child in America.

[wildcard_redneck]

We all know where the Bush Crime Family loyalties lie

[dfwgator]

They all make me sick.

[SaveFerris]

This one woke up after 8 years of Obama destroying and perverting everything his filthy hands could --> to attack President Donald Trump.

[Armscor38]

That’s about how much the debt increased during Trump’s presidency.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

George Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill Kristol and the rest of the Neo-Con crew are too busy telling everyone how horrible Donald Trump and the new populist Republican Party is to find some time to tell us what we got for spending all that money.

[SaxxonWoods]

Well yeah, but look what we’ve gotten for that money.