Iraq & Vietnam

Considering the wars' expenses in terms of dollars, Vietnam is estimated to have cost in the range of $530 to $660 billion in today's dollars.  The cost of Bush's Iraq incursion is now running at about nine billion dollars per month, with the ultimate cost likely to be $1 trillion to $2 trillion.  This from a country that can't find a way to spend $1 billion on health care, nor education, nor research.  But of course, Halliburton doesn't do health care, do they?