The Sidekick Chronicles, Lie #3: Money Spent On Iraq, Afghanistan

Biden hammered this point home several times last night:

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.

Let me say that again. Three weeks in Iraq; seven years, seven years or six-and-a-half years in Afghanistan.

Barack Obama was saying we need more troops there. Again, we spend in three weeks on combat missions in Iraq, more than we spent in the entire time we have been in Afghanistan.

However, here are the actual numbers:

According to the Congressional Research Service, spending on the war in Afghanistan since 2001 has been $172 Billion.  Spending in Iraq is, as the Democrats repeatedly mention, a little under $10 Billion a month.

In other words, Biden's number is off by, oh, something like 2000%.  Perhaps Obama's Sub-Committee ought to have held some hearings on Afghanistan after all.

For all his supposed foreign policy experience, he either has a terrible grasp of reality, or he's willing to lie about it.  Either way, it's a bad sign of readiness to lead.

There's my two cents.