"Every single week, the American people spend $2 billion on Iraq --- much of it for troops and materials, but plenty of it for schools, hospitals and electricity for Iraqis. Their oil money hasn't paid for reconstruction. We have," writes Cynthia Tucker for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Tucker aptly points out how the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are quietly, but surely pushing the US into "a deep sea of red ink." Similar to charges on a VISA card, the mounting costs of war don't feel like real expenses to most Americans.

But real they are indeed, as state's like Georgia can no longer afford to pay for PeachCare, a program that provides affordable health care for children and families.

"In Squandering Billions in Iraq While US Suffers," Eric Margolis of the Toronto Sun writes, "Our minds boggled last week at US government estimates that President George W. Bush's war on terror (including Iraq and Afghanistan) will cost at least $690 billion US by next year."

The war will cost more than World War I, Korea and Vietnam combined, writes Margolis, leaving each and every American, seniors and children included, an invoice of $2,800 (so far).