In a new report the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are . According to the news I was watching it surpassed the cost of the Vietnam war. I my thoughts were "Really? Did you adjust for inflation?" so I looked up the Vietnam war on , according to Wikipedia the cost of the the Vietnam war was $120 billion and according to Wikipedia it would be $700 billion in 2007 dollars however I used an to calculator the cost in 2008 dollars and according to the inflation calculator the cost world be $458 billion.
Ether way, WHAT THE FUCK!? The 12 year Vietnam war cost the US between $458 to 700 billion but the 8 years of the Afghanistan war and 5 years of Iraq war cost the US $900 billion. What the fuck?
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