We've spent less in Afghanistan in seven years than we spend in a month in Iraq
Phil Walter pointed me to another Bidenism from the 2008 VP debate. Here's the quote from the transcript:
Look, we have spent more money -- we spend more money in three weeks on combat in Iraq than we spent on the entirety of the last seven years that we have been in Afghanistan building that country.
The problem with this (thanks to Real Clear Politics for the numbers-gathering), is that it's way, way off. Specifically, we spend about $10B a month in Iraq, and (when he said this) the U.S. had spent a total of around $172B on Afghanistan. So he was off by an order of magnitude. Close enough for government work?
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