Before It's Too Late by Alan Bock

According to "The Iraq Quagmire: The Mounting Costs of War and the Case for Bringing Home the Troops," the Iraq war, in the words of IPS research fellow Erik Leaver, is "the most expensive military effort in the last 60 years." According to Leaver (in an interview with longtime drug-law-reform and recently Nader operative Kevin B. Zeese), "Operations costs in Iraq are estimated at $5.6 billion per month in 2005, while the average cost of U.S. operations in Vietnam was $5.1 billion per month, adjusting for inflation."