Democrat: White House Is Low-Balling Costs Of Libya Mission -- Washington PostA Democratic lawmaker said Thursday that the White House is “dramatically underestimating” the cost of the nation’s military involvement in Libya by relying on misleading accounting.
“That effort is costing us billions a week,” Rep. Brad Sherman, California Democrat and a certified public accountant, said in his opening remarks at a House Foreign Relations Committee hearing on reforming the United Nations with Susan E. Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
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My Comment: With the budget battles going on continuously in Congress .... the last thing that most politicians want to do (right now) is calculate the real cost of the Libyan war on U.S. taxpayers.
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