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Estimated Cost of Afghan, Iraq Wars Tops $1 Trillion -- News from Antiwar.com

Estimated Cost of Afghan, Iraq Wars Tops $1 Trillion -- News from Antiwar.com
Tonight it is the later, as Costofwar.com, the maker of a popular Javascript ticker that estimates the current costs of the war, has seen its estimate pass the $1 trillion mark earlier today.

Costofwar’s estimate is based on the amount of money allocated to the war in the current and previous fiscal years, but other estimates suggest that the true cost runs into the several trillion dollar range.

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