This doesn’t really seem all that bad to me. The US spent roughly 2.7 billion per week on the Iraq war based on some estimates (2.4 trillion over 17 years), which is the annual budget of Indiana. While Indiana isn’t a powerhouse in the US economy, it is still ranked 15th. So for the Iraq war, only 14 of US’s 50 regions had budgets that exceeded the country’s weekly spending.
This doesn’t really seem all that bad to me. The US spent roughly 2.7 billion per week on the Iraq war based on some estimates (2.4 trillion over 17 years), which is the annual budget of Indiana. While Indiana isn’t a powerhouse in the US economy, it is still ranked 15th. So for the Iraq war, only 14 of US’s 50 regions had budgets that exceeded the country’s weekly spending.