That is an obscene amount of money. It's also the sum of money the President offered to recoup with his deficit reduction plan. We wouldn't even need a deficit reduction plan had George Bush not gotten us into these wars (though, I will say I thought Afghanistan was necessary - Iraq, not so much).
HuffPost:
The United States will have spent a total of $3.7 trillion on wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, costing 225,000 lives and creating 7.8 million refugees, by the time the conflicts end, according to a report released on Wednesday by Brown University.
The report estimates the U.S. government has already spent between $2.3 trillion to $2.7 trillion...
