The Danger Room posts today on the cost of the surge:
The “surge” of increased troops in Iraq could cost as much as $40 billion to maintain, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. In testimony today to the House Budget Committee, CBO assistant director Robert Sunshine says keeping the 30,000 – 40,000 extra soldiers and marines in Iraq for two years would take $40 billion; a one-year “surge,” $22 billion.
$40 billion, it’s a lot of money, I know. But the figure had some greater resonance for me–I couldn’t place it…but then I remembered, this week’s issue of Business Week.
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