Holy moly that number keeps getting bigger. The budgetary cost of the Iraq war was, according to the Congressional Research Service, $815 billion[1]. Even if y

Holy moly that number keeps getting bigger. The budgetary cost of the Iraq war was, according to the Congressional Research Service, $815 billion[1]. Even if you would rather model long-term or indirect costs, there was never, ever $6 trillion in the Federal budget over the corresponding period that could have been redirected to "infrastructure for working class Americans". [1] https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf