Barack Obama has recently been complaining about the cost of the war in Iraq. He seems to not understand that the soldiers who are in Iraq would be somewhere, and would require food, shelter, etc. The size of the army would not be reduced if we were not involved in Iraq (and in fact, Obama has talked about increasing the size of the army), so the true cost is just the delta that is related specifically to Iraq. At this time, that differential cost is pretty small, since we are not using a lot of ammunition now, not many vehicles are being destroyed n combat, etc. Obama,s argument that we would save $10 billion per month by leaving Iraq is simply not true. Politicians running for off ice are not much concerned about truth.