Deficits, With And Without The Iraq War = Runaway Spending Under the Dems

From our friends at Pajamas Media and The American Thinker.  This chart clearly shows the runaway spending under the Dems, with or without the Iraq spending that the Dems frequently hold up as an example of Republicans' supposedly outlandish spending.

Iraq: The War That Broke Us -- Not

CHART OF THE DAY: Deficits, With And Without The Iraq War.

“Do you see alarming deficits or trends from 2003 through 2007 in the above chart? No. In fact, the trend through 2007 is shrinking deficits. What you see is a significant upward tick in 2008, and then an explosion in 2009. Now, what might have happened between 2007 and 2008, and then 2009? Democrats taking over both houses of Congress, and then the presidency, was what happened. Republicans wrote the budgets for the fiscal years through 2007. Congressional Democrats wrote the budgets for FY 2008 and on.”

The CBO breaks that cost down over the eight calendar years of 2003-2010. Below is a picture of federal deficits over those years with and without Iraq War spending.

Sources: CBO and U.S. Statistical Abstract