I will agree that over a 10 year period time, the effects of Obama's stimulus coupled with Obamacare and Obamafinanreg will push the total cost of the stimulus way up past the $1.5 trillion mark.
As for the costs of the Iraq War, you still have to account for how much the post-war, peacekeeping costs are for those US soldiers and if you are being honest, then you have to account for the costs to keep mercenary groups such as Xe (formerly known as Blackwater) involved.
As for total costs, why don't we include the costs of the Korean War in this debate. Far as I know we still have US troops in Korea (around 30,000), do we include their cost from 1953 until today into the total cost for the Korean War?
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Forces_Korea
Same goes for Iraq, if we still have US troops in Iraq come 2020, 2030, 2040 or on, will we be intellectually honest and include those peacekeeping costs into the total cost for the Iraq War?
Same goes for the costs to keep US bases open in Europe since WWII. Do we include European US military base costs into the total cost of World War 2?
