CBO: Iraq War Cost Less Than Porkulus

Via Memeorandum, I came across this story from FoxNews CBO: Eight Years of Iraq War Cost Less Than Stimulus Act:

According to CBO numbers in its Budget and Economic Outlook published this month, the cost of Operation Iraqi Freedom was $709 billion for military and related activities, including training of Iraqi forces and diplomatic operations.  (By comparison) the projected cost of the stimulus, which passed in February 2009, and is expected to have a shelf life of two years, was $862 billion.

If you'd like another comparison, the projected cost of Obamacare over a decade is going to be $2 trillion.

This does not imply that the cost of the war in Iraq was not steep, but it is meant to provide evidence for you to rebut a frequent liberal comment that "the debt is because of the War in Iraq" or something like that (if you listen to talk radio, you'll hear every day how the entire debt is because of the War in Iraq against evil militant terrorists and that Bush should be blamed for the entire recession because of this).

That's right- during a time of growth and prosperity that was the majority of the Bush years, our nation engaged a violent Middle-eastern nation and removed an evil dictator who was a strategic and tactical threat to our nation, all for the cost comparable to a Democratic President's one-time give-away, and at one-third of the cost of a decade worth of massive welfare increases.

Data, evidence, and information clearly shows that the reason for our debt and our declining economy is not 'Bush's fault', in spite of how much the Democrats want it to be. The reason for our debt and our declining economy is over-spending on domestic policies combined with falling revenues due to high taxes and regulation. That's not 'Bush's fault' (although he does bear some fault for those)- but it is the fault of Democrats and liberals in Congress.