Another sad parallel between Vietnam and Iraq was prepared to think progress. Based on estimates of the Congress, it is now official: The Iraq war is almost as expensive as Vietnam.
Report: With $ 648 billion, the cost of the Iraq war almost as high as that in Vietnam
In his 1999 book "A Charge to Keep," wrote President Bush that he had "from Vietnam the lesson learned, never ask the military about to wage a political war. " After his Iraq war had started in April 2004, Bush rejected the analogy that Iraq would turn into a quagmire like Vietnam, from.
Question: How do you answer the Vietnam comparison?
Bush: I think the analogy is false.
Last August, President Bush changed his mind and adopted the Vietnam analogy, saying that Vietnam had taught us that the "price for America's withdrawal" is expensive and painful.
revealed in new report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) that keep the costs where the real similarity between Iraq and Vietnam. Calculated with the dollar in 2007 [= inflation-adjusted] cost of the Vietnam War, the U.S. $ 686,000,000,000. The Iraq war, which lasted just a good 5 years is, at 648 billion dollars:
The CRS notes that "All estimates relate solely to the military operations and do not reflect the costs for the disabled care, interest on debt related to the war, or support for allies." Consequently, the actual cost of the Iraq war are likely to be much more expensive, as the Nobel laureate economist Joe Stiglitz in his book "The Three Trillion Dollar War" reported.
It is despite all that unlikely that the White House is worried about rising costs. In October, said the CBO [Budget Committee of Congress], the war could cost two trillion dollars during the next decade. "I'm not concerned about that number," said Dana Perino, spokeswoman for the White response, in response, and called the estimates "pure speculation".
"The price of America's withdrawal" from Iraq would be an alternative that Bush seriously should use.
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