-->At $174 billion, the Iraq conflict would be approaching the inflation-adjusted, $199 billion cost of World War I, a level it will almost certainly pass next year.
<ul> ~ $25 Billion More Sought to Fund Wars</ul>

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-->und ein weiterer Vergleich

" With an additional $25 billion, the war's cost exceeds the inflation-adjusted expenditures of the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War and the Persian Gulf War combined, according to a study by Yale University economist William D. Nordhaus."

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