three trillion dollar war

$16bn per month is quite a tab. and really really bad accounting practices to boot. as in, oops where'd i put that $8.8bn?

"...the official Congressional Budget Office estimate for the cost of the war so far was of the order of $500bn. The figure was so low, they didn't believe it, and decided to investigate. The paper they wrote together, and published in January 2006, revised the figure sharply upwards, to between $1 and $2 trillion." the cost of war.