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End the Financial Irresponsibility of the War in Iraq

Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: Care2.com

Donald Rumsfeld, in 2003, estimated that the cost of the war in Iraq would be $50 billion. Five years and more than $500 billion later, Iraq has turned into a sinkhole for American taxpayers. In fact, recent analysis indicates that the true cost of the war could easily top $1-2 trillion dollars!

That's more than any other war, except for World War II. Just think -- the war in Iraq has been more expensive than the anticipated cost of the U.S. implementing the Kyoto Protocol to control greenhouse gases ($300 billion).

Countless lives lost and massive fiscal irresponsibility to boot -- the entire affair has been one debacle after another. Demand that the U.S. better use its resources and return its troops home.

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 20,000

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The war in Iraq has proved far too costly and not just in terms of lives lost. In fact, recent analysis indicates that the true financial cost of the war could easily top $1-2 trillion dollars! That will make it the second most expensive war in the history of the United States.

The yearly cost of the war has doubled since the 2003 appropriation of $74 billion, which the Bush administration expected to be the total cost of the war. And these estimates don't necessarily account for all the potential expenses, including

* disability pay and health care costs of Iraqi war veterans for several decades;
* replacing worn or destroyed military equipment and resettling the armed forces; and
* paying interest on the debt used to finance the war.

[Your Comment]

To date, the war has cost $341.4 million per day. Worse, thousands of lives have been thrown away in a misguided, high-handed venture of the Bush Administration. I urge you to help the U.S. use its resources better and more importantly, bring our troops home.

Sincerely,
[Your name here]

We took action on “End the Financial Irresponsibility of the War in Iraq”!

# 100:

9:17 pm PDT, Jul 24, Alexis Bartlo, California

# 99:

9:10 pm PDT, Jul 24, Kim Stueck, Illinois

# 97:

8:17 pm PDT, Jul 24, Jacinthe Vigneault, Canada

# 96:

8:04 pm PDT, Jul 24, Steve Dale, Australia

# 95:

7:35 pm PDT, Jul 24, Joanna Grinberg-ayala, New York

# 94:

7:26 pm PDT, Jul 24, Name not displayed, Canada

# 93:

6:46 pm PDT, Jul 24, JAY A, Virginia
please do the right thing!

# 92:

6:24 pm PDT, Jul 24, Natalia Arcila, Florida

# 91:

5:46 pm PDT, Jul 24, Timothy Wright, Illinois
Reign in this spending nightmare! Stop funding the occupation!

# 90:

5:38 pm PDT, Jul 24, Name not displayed, Illinois
Bring the troops home now and use the money here to help our economy!

# 89:

4:35 pm PDT, Jul 24, Name not displayed, Iowa
Bring the money back home to help our own people.We have people in our country that are starving and loosing their homes,while we are spending millions of dollars building up a country that probably has more money than we do.let them take over their own problems and get our troops back to their own families.

# 88:

4:29 pm PDT, Jul 24, Jason J Green, Virginia

# 87:

4:12 pm PDT, Jul 24, Marcos Kauffman, Texas

# 86:

4:11 pm PDT, Jul 24, Betty Van Wicklen, New York
In today's economy and with the threat of a worsening economy worldwide due to climate changes associated with global warming, I feel this money can be better spent by the government in finding new sources of clean, renewable energy and cleaning up our emissions of greenhouse gases and superfund pollution sites. These measures would produce positive results for American lives, rather than perpetuating a fight for stabilization in an area where our presence is questionable and victory will always be out of reach due to the internal ethnic differences of long standing.

# 85:

4:06 pm PDT, Jul 24, Jaymee Brown, Arizona

# 84:

4:03 pm PDT, Jul 24, Allen Huggins, Wisconsin

# 83:

4:00 pm PDT, Jul 24, Kristi Katuran, Pennsylvania

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3:58 pm PDT, Jul 24, Lisa Parshley, North Carolina

# 81:

3:34 pm PDT, Jul 24, Veronica Lima, Oregon

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3:24 pm PDT, Jul 24, Lisa Allowitz-Thompson, California

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2:56 pm PDT, Jul 24, Rob Defrees, California

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2:31 pm PDT, Jul 24, Name not displayed, Lithuania

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2:25 pm PDT, Jul 24, Jacqueline Tremlin, Idaho

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2:22 pm PDT, Jul 24, Jacolin Schultz, Wisconsin

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1:32 pm PDT, Jul 24, Ginger Geronimo, Alabama

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12:25 pm PDT, Jul 24, P. RINALDI, Alabama

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12:10 pm PDT, Jul 24, Chum Richardson, Canada

# 72:

11:39 am PDT, Jul 24, Judyta Dymkowska, Poland

# 71:

11:33 am PDT, Jul 24, NICK DAVIS, Canada
You didn't belong there in the first place, get out!

# 70:

11:24 am PDT, Jul 24, Pam Boland, Georgia

# 69:

11:20 am PDT, Jul 24, Denise Lytle, New Jersey

# 68:

10:48 am PDT, Jul 24, Glenda Jasper, California
Don't Start The Revolution Without Me!

# 67:

10:46 am PDT, Jul 24, Margaret Tollner, California

# 66:

10:09 am PDT, Jul 24, Allison Ferraiolo, California

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10:07 am PDT, Jul 24, Name not displayed, Texas

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10:07 am PDT, Jul 24, Genesis Vegan O'Neil, United States Minor Outlying Islands

# 63:

9:52 am PDT, Jul 24, Margaret Patrick, United Kingdom

# 62:

9:20 am PDT, Jul 24, Ralf Schuetz, Colorado

# 61:

9:15 am PDT, Jul 24, Janet Solomon, Canada
You can't eat either oil or money, kidz. Find another way to subsidise your habits...

# 60:

8:34 am PDT, Jul 24, Name not displayed, California

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8:26 am PDT, Jul 24, Name not displayed, New Jersey

# 58:

7:52 am PDT, Jul 24, Erin Boyer, Texas

# 57:

7:41 am PDT, Jul 24, Name not displayed, Minnesota

# 56:

7:26 am PDT, Jul 24, Barry Hammer, Maine
The enormous, unending, financial cost of the war in Iraq could undermine America's economic stability and national security, drive the Federal government into bankruptcy, and make vital social programs such as social security and medicare insolvent. Please end the war as soon as possible so that future generations of Americans are not burdened with a mountain of debt that can never be fully repaid. Now that the Iraqi government and the Iraqi people have clearly told us that they want American military forces to leave their nation as soon as possible, there is no reason for America to impose itself on Iraq against the will of the democratically elected Iraqi government and Iraqi people, which would only undermine America's prestige and and global geopolitical stablity. If the Iraqis are still not able to independently provide for their own security and decisively defeat terrorist forces, then America should arrange to have the UN or other international organizations send in some kind of peacekeeping force, if that is acceptable to the Iraqis and the international community.

# 55:

7:21 am PDT, Jul 24, Dawn Smoke, Canada

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6:36 am PDT, Jul 24, Jack Leitch, Canada

# 53:

6:28 am PDT, Jul 24, Thomas Kristan, Canada

# 52:

6:25 am PDT, Jul 24, Vidya Sims, California

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6:15 am PDT, Jul 24, Name not displayed, Illinois

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