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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (93999)4/16/2003 6:10:42 PM
From: KyrosL  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
>>100B$ of U.S. taxpayer money spent

Jacob, we only spent $20 billion so far, and it's only $2 billion per month from now on. The rest is for Egypt, Israel, Turkey, and various pork barrel programs at home. Looks like the war itself was way under budget. I wish we could allocate some of these money for restoring the museum and libraries and generally buying some goodwill in Iraq, but I am not holding my breath.



To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (93999)4/16/2003 8:01:26 PM
From: unclewest  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
"Zero sum", except for all the dead Americans and Iraqis, and the 100B$ of U.S. taxpayer money spent......

For a bunch of news hounds...many of the folks on this thread just cannot quite get it right.

It is not a zero sum game unless you assign no value at all to giving 50 million people freedom.

100B$ is just a gross overstatement. You have no basis for it.


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