re: #231 Charles

The Iraq War costs about $200 million every single day. The total cost is estimated to be somewhere around $2 TRILLION dollars.

If you don’t think that has a huge effect on the deficit, you’re dreaming.

According to the CRS the Iraq war is costing us $2 billion a week. That’s $104 billion a year. Cutting it out entirely would drop our annual deficit down to $1.4 trillion. It amounts to less than 7% of our annual shortfall.