Is it true that the U.S spends 8billion in Iraq a week?

Question

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Answer 1

No, it's more like 8 billion a month. If you do the maths, the figure given to you is closer to the whole US Defense budget.

Only part of the Defense budget indirectly goes into Iraq, and most of the money being spent on Iraq doesn't come from the Defense budget.

Answer 2

That is about right. The government likes to layout numbers (like Billy here tried to show) but they break them down into categories so that it doesn't look as bad. The daily cost is under 1 billion...so in a week, it wouldn't be quite 8 billion, but it is close.  

Answer 3

Yes

Answer 4

The actual number is $9 billion per month.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated the cost of "prosecuting" a war against Iraq at up to $9 billion per month, on top of an initial outlay of up to $13 billion for the deployment of troops to the Persian Gulf region.