• Home
  • Author
  • Reviews
  • Hooper’s War
  • Tom Joad
  • We Meant Well
  • Visuals
  • Contact
  • Want to Know the Cost of Iraq War? Wait until 2031

    October 3, 2011

    Tags: Commission on Wartime Contracting, Congress, Waste
    Posted in: Afghanistan, Embassy/State, Iraq, Military

    The internal records of a congressionally mandated panel that reported staggering estimates of wasteful U.S. wartime spending will remain sealed to the public until 2031, officials confirmed, as the panel closes its doors on Friday.

    The Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan was established by Congress in 2008 and spent three years probing more than $206 billion the U.S. government spent on contracts and grants during a decade of conflict.

    In a final, 240-page report issued in late August, the panel estimated that the U.S. had wasted or misspent between $31 billion and $60 billion contracting for services. The commission’s management estimates that the three years of research and investigations themselves cost approximately $25 million.

    Want to know more? Wait until 2031 (no hurry, we’ll still be at war in Afghanistan), or read the whole article.



    Related Articles:

    • Deterrence Failed in Ukraine: Is Strategic Ambiguity Over Taiwan Better than a Treaty?
    • Write Your Own Ukraine Article (MSM Version)
    • Deterrence, China, and the U.S.
    • What the Hell is Joe Biden Doing in Ukraine?
    • Has Joe Biden Gone Loco Over Ukraine?
    • Biden Wants All the Points Due a Wartime President without Actually Going to War
    • Understanding Things: That Stalled Russian Convoy in Ukraine




    Copyright © 2020. All rights reserved. The views expressed here are solely those of the author(s) in their private capacity.

  • Leave A Comment

    Mail (will not be published) (required)

Buy Peter’s Books on Amazon!


We Meant Well


Hooper's War



Recent Posts

  • Was There a Coup Attempt on January 6?
  • Justice, Albeit Late, at Oberlin College and Gibson’s Bakery
  • Five Unanswered Questions for the January 6 Hearings
  • Viewpoint Discrimination May Bring 1A to Social Media
  • What Will It Take to Come Home to the Democratic Party?