One reason the Congressional Budget Office’s estimates of the deficit are absurdly unrealistic is that they do not include the likely $100 billion the taxpayer will shell out for the war for global freedom.

However, that $100 billion figure understates the true cots of the Iraq war. According to Linda Bilmes, even after the war is over, the taxpayer will face a bill of at least $350 billion dollars to care for the wounded veterans of the Iraq war.

Pentagon officials challenged Bilmes figures, but when she told them that her data was based on information obtained on federal web sites, they did the only honorable thing: removed that data from their website!