The content of the reform proposals must be all over the map. The CBO "scored" what was being considered at $600 billion a week or so ago. I think this latest report is the cost of the bill proposed by Teddy Kennedy before he died. Much of what he had in his bill has already been negotiated away. Either of those numbers is for a ten-year period.

Regardless, even if it is a trillion, the trade-off of the cost of middle eastern wars would pay off even that amount with less than two years of "war savings". A pretty good trade-off if we really don't have compelling reasons to be waging war in that part of the world.

Now I'm off to learn some more about our reasons for being there from the Wikipedia link that Steve provided.