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sabra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 09:40 AM Original message |
War costs may total $2.4 trillion |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 09:42 AM Response to Original message |
1. Isn't China picking up the tab? So let's order the "Surf-n-Turf" and the champagne. |
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insanad (286 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 10:39 AM Response to Reply #1 |
12. What the money we're spending could be doing instead.... |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 10:44 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. THIEVES AND WAR CRIMINALS |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
2. But we can't afford universal health care |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
3. It won't matter if they manage to turn dollars into pesos |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
4. easy fix . . . just have every man, woman and child cough up the $8000 they owe . . . |
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Baby Snooks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
5. You have to wonder... |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 10:08 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Boy, you're a glass half-empty sort aren't you? |
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Baby Snooks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 11:46 AM Response to Reply #7 |
18. Watch Fox? |
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htuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 11:28 AM Response to Reply #5 |
16. It probably would have been more effective to just drop bundles of cash on the Iraqis... |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
6. Hey, it's only $8,000 per man, woman and child in the US. |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 10:22 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. They said the reconstruction would cost nothing. |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 10:58 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Don't forget the first part of that statement by Wolfowitz |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 11:21 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Oh there's much more |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 12:04 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. That would be former Enron consultant and the chief person behind the $1.35 billion tax cuts... |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
9. I think the supreme court should |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
10. Yay *! |
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dkofos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
11. Looks like wolfowitz was off a few zeros. |
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Divine Discontent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 07:20 PM Response to Reply #11 |
32. and a few years in length... |
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Stuckinthebush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
17. so if we stop now |
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truthisfreedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
20. That's a very "conservative" figure. We all know that any of the projected figures end up being |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
21. I bet for a couple hundred million, we could have just bribed Sadam into exile. |
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brooklynite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
22. Can I pay for my share and cancel the service? |
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tuckessee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
23. Small price to pay... |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
24. Expect the number to be closer to $20 Trillion |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
25. You know what? The amounts don't even mean anything to me anymore. They |
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eagler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
26. U.S. CBO estimates $2.4 trillion long-term war costs |
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FightingIrish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 06:01 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. $2.4 trillion from the pockets of many into the pockets of a few |
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dickbearton (577 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 06:01 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. Think of all the good that money could have done... |
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DemReadingDU (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 06:01 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Does this amount include money for our wounded veterans? |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 06:01 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. I've seen figures for VA costs that range from $500 to $900 billion. n/t |
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FreeStateDemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:17 AM Response to Reply #26 |
33. ..... that the White House brushed off as "speculation." This level of arrogance is expensive. |
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Earth_First (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
31. "Through the next decade..."? |
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Neoma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:29 AM Response to Original message |
34. Wow, I'm up too early. |
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Rockerdem (706 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 07:07 AM Response to Original message |
35. Iraq is the Looking Glass |
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