To quote the USA Today.
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The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could total $2.4 trillion through the next decade...The CBO estimates assume that 75,000 troops will remain in both countries through 2017...As of Sept. 30, the two wars have cost $604 billion, the CBO says...
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And the Guardian.
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The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (£1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert.The study, which expanded on traditional estimates by including such costs as lifetime disability and healthcare for troops injured in the conflict as well as the impact on the American economy, concluded that the US government is continuing to underestimate the cost of the war.
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So you have one saying over the next decade the war could costs could add up to $2.4 trillion and the other saying over the course of the next six decades or so the war could cost between 1 and 2 trillion dollars. Projected costs ten years out based on unknown variables is not the same as the actual cost to date.