Spunk Media » Prime Minister Gordon http://www.spunkmedia.com Mon, 07 May 2012 18:29:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Pressure mounts on Gordon Brown to inquire into the costs of the Iraq war http://www.spunkmedia.com/pressure-mounts-on-gordon-brown-to-inquire-into-the-costs-of-the-iraq-war.htm http://www.spunkmedia.com/pressure-mounts-on-gordon-brown-to-inquire-into-the-costs-of-the-iraq-war.htm#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:58:54 +0000 Admin http://spunkmedia.com/?p=61 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that British troops would be pulled out of Iraq in July next year. In the six years that British troops have been operating in the country they have lost 178 troops and caused innumerable Iraqi casualties. As the country decides to make the final put out pressure mounts on the Prime Minister to investigate into the casualties and costs of the war.

The Prime Minister is being called upon from the entire political divide to look into the details of Britain’s involvement in the war and the impact that it has had on the country’s economy. Opposition parties are of the opinion that Gordon Brown will be in no hurry to start the inquiry which has already been delayed for quite some time. The Prime Minister is expected to make a statement on the country’s involvement in the Iraq war to the parliament today.

The total cost of involvement in the Iraq war has cost the British a staggering ?7.836bn since 2003 as calculated by the Ministry of Defense. This works out to almost ?3.7m a day. Critics have calculated that the same amount of money could have been used to fund more than 25,200 teachers for a ten year period along with which 107 new hospitals could also have been set up. The final cost is further expected to rise before the last of the 4100 soldiers are pulled out by July.

Although the above mentioned estimated cost provide more than enough justification to question the country’s involvement in the war, some experts believe that the estimated cost is still much lower than the actual costs that Britain has incurred during the war.

This is because the total estimated costs calculated by the Ministry of Defence do not include the payments that have been made to the families of the 178 soldiers that lost their lives along with the money spent on the treatment of those injured in Iraq.

Mr. Brown has brushed aside the appeal for an in depth inquiry into the costs of the war until when “the time is right” despite the mounting pressure.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown lays a wreath at the Basra Airbase war memorial in southern Iraq

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