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To: KLP who wrote (110304)	8/6/2003 10:12:12 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Now is your complaint about the actual numbers or are you merely complaining about "lefties"? Can you prove the numbers are wrong? And if the numbers are right, why is it relevant who puts them up? Unless, of course, your post is simply an appeal to prejudice. "This total is based on estimates from the Congressional Budget Office. " Do you have problems with the CBO also? Or simply with folks who quote CBO numbers (or simply folks who quote CBO numbers whose politics do not agree with yours)?

To: KLP who wrote (110304)	8/11/2003 7:27:43 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 281500

As I see X already addressed the ad hominem nature of the objection, I'll leave the "who said it" argument alone. I thought the value added was the Java applet that ran the clock. Is not 4 billion a month the right number? It is useful to see what that rate of expenditure looks like right before one's eyes. If they had a "America Good Will" countdown clock, I could see the relevance of an "consider the source" argument because the estimation of American Good Will is intrinsically subjective. But the dollar "Cost of War" is numerically measurable.