Talk About Wasting Money ...

George W. Bush claims that the Democratic-led Congress is wasting time and taxpayers’ money on priorities that aren’t in keeping with his own. But it’s Bush’s mammoth special-interest expenditures--especially on the disastrous Iraq occupation--that are really draining U.S. government coffers, and harming the nation’s future. From the information network OneWorld:

Congress’ approval Wednesday of $70 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan mean the twin conflicts are now more costly to American taxpayers than the war in Vietnam.

According to a study by the Washington-based Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Congress has now approved nearly $700 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“Using inflation-adjusted dollars, the total cost of those wars has now surpassed the total cost of the Vietnam war (which ran to $670 billion),’ the group’s Travis Sharp told OneWorld. “It’s also more than seven times larger than the Persian Gulf War ($94 billion) and more than twice the cost of the Korean war ($295 billion).”

As a result of Wednesday’s vote, Sharp said, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will become the second costliest conflict in American history, trailing only World War II.

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