Unable to summon the courage to end funding for the Iraq war, liberals are now trying to blame Iraq for the current economic turmoil. We’ve already detailed why this argument is so specious, but sometimes visuals communicate better than words. Here is how little the U.S government is spending on Iraq compared to other outlays:

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Spending on the Iraq war, in fact, amounts to a mere 1 percent of the economy:

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