Title: Cost of Iraq War: Timeline, Economic Impact
Headings: Cost of Iraq War, Its Timeline, and the Economic Impact
Cost of Iraq War, Its Timeline, and the Economic Impact
Timeline of Iraq War Costs
FY 2003 - $90.3 Billion
FY 2004 - $90.9 Billion
FY 2005 - $105.8 Billion
FY 2006 - $108.3 Billion
FY 2007 - $155.9 Billion
FY 2008 - $196.8 Billion
FY 2009 - $132.9 Billion
FY 2010 - $83.4 Billion
FY 2011 - $50.9 Billion
2012-2014 - $7.8 Billion
2015–2016 - $38.7 Billion
Cost of the Iraq War to Veterans
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Iraq After the War
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Kimberly Amadeo is an expert on U.S. and world economies and investing, with over 20 years of experience in economic analysis and business strategy. She is the President of the economic website World Money Watch. Read The Balance's editorial policies
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The Iraq War was a military conflict that lasted seven years, from 2003 to 2011, and cost $1.06 trillion. President George W. Bush launched the war to eliminate the threat from Iraq's Sunni leader, Saddam Hussein, who he believed was developing weapons of mass destruction. The Iraq War was part of the ​ War on Terror and was the U.S. response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks by al-Qaida. The war added more than $1 trillion to the U.S. debt, which included increases to the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Veterans Administration (VA) base budgets. The DoD base budget grew by $193 billion during the Iraq War, and the VA budget expanded by $47.7 billion. However, some of those increases were attributable to the War in Afghanistan .