War Costs For Iraq And Afghanistan Hit $850 Billion
WASHINGTON — President Bush on Monday signed legislation to pay for the war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the rest of his presidency an...
WASHINGTON — President Bush on Monday signed legislation to pay for the war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the rest of his presidency an...
James Freedman | Posted 04.24.2008 | Home
Our election machinery is flawed and vulnerable. It's a telling comparison-- the amount of money we spend on fair elections versus the amounts we spend on campaigns or on bringing democracy to Iraq.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
Three trillion dollars is a lot of money. So much that it's hard to get your head around. You shouldn't feel bad about it, after all, John McCain ca...
ZP Heller | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
To put the colossal cost of the Iraq War into perspective, we've designed a game to help people really understand what $3 trillion dollars can buy.
Tom Andrews | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics
Even the reduction of violence promoted daily by Bush and the Iraq war apologists lacks credibility.
Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
Vice President Dick Cheney went fishing in the waters between Oman and Iran on Wednesday, borrowing the Sultan of Oman's 60-foot royal yacht for the m...
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
Remarks of President George Bush 5 Year Anniversary of Iraq War The Pentagon Arlington, VA Read more about Bush's speech marking the five-year-annive...
Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
Below Is a detailed list of Iraq "by the numbers" released by Senator Harry Reid's office: The Cost to Our Forces in Iraq 3,990: American troop...
Greg Speeter | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics
At the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, it's fitting to take stock: What has the war cost your community?
Robert Koehler | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics
We're not just "losing" this tragic, arrogantly unplanned war in the conventional sense, we're committing slow socioeconomic suicide with its open-ended pursuit. We're losing the future.
Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics
For a cost of $156.3 billion, less than a tenth of the total Iraq war budget, we could lift entire countries out of poverty, teach every person in the world to read and write, and significantly reduce child mortality.
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AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics